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Quinta seems, from terrestrial observations, a promising target, and getting there is half of Lem's fun. The Eurydice is constructed in orbit around a moon of Saturn; its thermonuclear flowstream engines use hydrogen intake as fuel and can achieve a velocity of 99% the speed of light. While the scout ship Hermes, weighing a mere 180,000 tons, is sent off to reconnoiter Quinta, the Eurydice lingers in the vicinity of a black hole. When Hermes returns, the mother ship will execute an "incomprehensible maneuver called 'passage through a retrochronal toroid,' thanks to which she would reappear...
...Yorkers darted past one another in Rockefeller Center last week, many halted at the street-level windows of a camera gallery to gaze at a striking array of photographs: fireworks, an athlete in pain, the rings of Saturn, one space shuttle lifting off, another disintegrating in the air, a laughing Ronald Reagan, a gyrating Madonna, a city in flames. These and other dramatic images make up a new exhibit whose theme is TIME photojournalism of the 1980s...
...sale of all or part of EDS. Analysts thought the talks might have been related to GM's mammoth cost- cutting effort. In recent weeks, GM has announced plans to close ten factories, terminate 29,000 workers and reduce by half the planned output at its proposed ultra-computerized Saturn plant in Tennessee. Said Ann Knight, who follows the auto industry for PaineWebber: "If GM should really downsize itself, some of its need for EDS would go away." Some observers think the negotiations did not focus on the sale of EDS but on increased business -- or a possible joint venture...
Indeed, having brilliantly explored Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1981, Voyager had already compiled an enviable record. Now the spacecraft was on the verge of duplicating its earlier, spectacular accomplishments. At week's end it had already discovered ten tiny Uranian moons and sent back incredibly detailed photographs of the five larger, previously known satellites. It had photographed the nine known rings and found at least two more. The versatile spacecraft also managed to pry a bewildering volume of information from Uranus itself, despite the fact that the giant planet is shrouded by a thick and opaque blue-green...
...Voyager swung behind Uranus, it bounced radio waves off the rings and discovered that they are quite different from those of Saturn, which contain an abundance of fine particles. The Uranian rings are made largely of dark "boulders," most of them more than a yard wide, that circle the planet once every eight hours. Many scientists believe they may be the remnants of a large moon that shattered in an ancient cataclysm...