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...were sending a manned expedition to Venus, we wouldn't know whether to send a paleo-botanist, a mineralogist, or a deep sea diver," said Carl Sagan, noted expert on Venus from the University of California, yesterday...
...informal talk on the atmosphere and surface of Venus given at the Harvard Observatory, Sagan noted that four theories of the nature of the planet had been held within the last 50 years. The earliest concluded that Venus was a planet shrouded with clouds of water vapor, hiding a surface that was nothing but swampy rain forest...
...reach this conclusion. Dr. Carl Sagan, a research fellow in the University of California's Space Sciences Laboratory, simulated Jupiter's known atmosphere in the lab, showering his Jovian model with ultraviolet rays, just as Jupiter and all the planets are bathed...
...rays penetrate to the planet's surface, inducing infra-red radiation. The cloud cover traps this heat, forming the oceans of water or ammonia into which the falling molecules (formed at the impressive rate of ten pounds per square mile per year) dissolve. This process, says Sagan, "would create the conditions necessary for complex pre-biological organic reactions." By his reckoning, Jupiter's rind may not be icy at all, and its surface temperature (70° F.) may be balmy enough to support the same evolutionary process that on earth led from molecules...
Goodbye Again is the film version of Françoise Sagan's novel, Aimez-Vous Brahms. In it, Montand is required to pretend that he is a middle-aged trucking executive who, after five years as Ingrid's lover, prefers to spend his time with younger models. Ingrid has a lugubrious affair with Perkins, a spoiled young loafer, after he lures her to a concert with the mysteriously seductive incantation, "Aimez-vous Brahms?" There is a letup in the mooning when Perkins' exasperated boss asks him what the trouble is. "I just realized I've never...