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Noting, for example, that the Soviet Union plans to build a large space station, Jastrow quotes the head Pentagon scientist, who last month suggested that the station "may be the forerunner of a weapons platform." That the USSR launched 125 satellites last year while NASA sent up only 18 leads Jastrow to suspect that some of the Soviet devices are actually "killer satellites that can lurk in orbit" for long periods of time until detonated from the ground. Jastrow most fears the Soviets may someday have enough such killer satellites to abruptly declare the space above the USSR off-limits...
Harvard professors have won the prestigious annual award for medical discoveries in the past two years. Last year, University Professor David H. Hubel and Torston N. Wiesel, Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology shared the prize with a scientist from the California Institute of Technology...
...everyone is overawed by the so-called knowledge explosion. "What happens," says Computer Scientist Joseph Weizenbaum of M.I.T., "is that educators, all of us, are deluged by a flood of messages disguised as valuable information, most of which is trivial and irrelevant to any substantive concern. This is the elite's equivalent of junk mail, but many educators can't see through it because they are not sufficiently educated to deal with such random complexity." To many experts, the computer seems a symbol of both the problem and its solution. "What the computer has done," according to Stephen...
...Ocean thermal energy conversion, or OTEC, is decades away from full development, but one OTEC scientist feels that it may one day deliver as much energy from Hawaiian waters alone as the entire U.S. now consumes. OTEC utilizes warm surface waters to heat pressurized ammonia, which vaporizes, expands and propels a power turbine. Then the gaseous ammonia is cooled by subsurface waters, converted back to a liquid and repeats the process all over again. In 1979 a floating mini-OTEC plant generated a net 15 kilowatts per hour, making it the first such plant to produce more energy than...
...last moment with E. T. after the lab-technicians have zipped up his body bag, is a singularly flaky character, who confesses his abiding wish to look up into the sky and see spaceships. (Imagine how hard even the most generous-spirited of us would laugh if a Harvard scientist tried a line like that...