Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...J.P.L., the scientists did what scientists do in such signal moments, responding with both exultant overstatement and near-surreal understatement. "This is a spectacular day," said mission manager Richard Cook. Rover scientist Henry Moore agreed, after a fashion. "Nobody," he said, without a trace of obvious irony, "has ever driven a car on Mars before...
...scientist herself, Virginia Brown said her son always wanted to work with computers, and there were "astonishing opportunities for Aaron at Harvard...
Snow used to prove his point by asking literary intellectuals to explain the Second Law of Thermodynamics. They usually couldn't, even though, as Snow pointed out, to a scientist this would be like not having read a work of Shakespeare...
...first time an American spacecraft has kicked up the Martian soil since the Viking landings in 1976. More important, it will be the first time that NASA has been able to move an unmanned vehicle from place to place on a foreign world. "I truly believe," says project scientist Matthew Golombek, "that Pathfinder will change our view of Mars...
...Hollywood moralizing gave birth to exploitation films. With the adoption of a Production Code in 1922, the major studios ostensibly promised to renounce the ribald. Into that vacuum crept sideshowmen like Dwain Esper, who directed (ludicrously) and promoted (brilliantly) the first grindhouse classics. The 1934 Maniac, about a mad scientist's even daffier assistant whose ailurophobia leads him to rip out a cat's eye and eat it ("Why, it's not unlike an oyster"), pretended to be a serious study of dementia praecox. Esper used the old carny come-on--it's so sinful you have...