Word: scans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the early 1960s, astronomers have been opening up an entirely new universe, aided by technology only vaguely dreamed of in Einstein's day: giant radio antennas that can "see" hitherto unknown sources of energy in space, orbiting satellites that scan the heavens high above the obscuring atmosphere, and atomic clocks so accurate they lose or gain barely a billionth of a second in a month...
...Brain scan ends a career...
...basic idea for multi-eyed monsters is not new. Even while they were building Palomar in the 1930s, astronomers realized that if they wanted still larger instruments they would need less expensive technologies. Yet many doubted that it would ever be possible to get several smaller mirrors to scan the heavens precisely in unison. Explains MMT's acting director, Neville Woolf: "The problem is comparable to getting six headstrong prima ballerinas to dance as if they were...
Moreover, when you scan the program and see that this show has a "costumiere" (how pretentious!) and that it is the last production of the apprentice theater (no mainstage pros here), it doesn't look too promising...
...appliances, working on a companion masterpiece: an even better robot. Skora says Arok's new sibling will do everything Arok can, plus open doors, light cigars and perform dozens of more complicated tasks that require feedback and self-correction. He (she?) will be semismart, with microprocessors and slow-scan television to guide his (her?) actions and, Skora hopes, the ability to take instructions direct from the inventors' brain waves. Sneb, the new creation will be called, for Ben spelled backward (with...