Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCrosky, lecturer on Astronomy, showed the television audience the equipment of the Smithsonian Institute which photographs the sky all night long every night. With cameras that can detect a six inch sphere as far away as the moon, they have never detected "anything we don't understand...
...Amberold, Boland 6-1 2. Blue Skyer, Broussard 20-1 3. Stupendous, Baez 7-2 4. Rehabilitate, Turcotte 20-1 5. Advocator, Sellers 12-1 6. Dominar, Harmatz 20-1 7. Fleet Shoe, Gilligan 20-1 8. Exhibitionist, Belmonte 15-1 9. Beau Sub, Parrott 20-1 10. Sky Guy, Adams 20-1 11. Tragniew, Pierce 10-1 12. Kauai King, Brumfield 7-2 13. Abe's Hope, Shoemaker 5-2 14. Sean E. Indian, Fires 20-1 15. Quinta, Kallai 20-1 16. Wileston Kid, Stevenson...
...with Bob. As for the Nike X anti-missile system to defend the U.S. against such an attack, McNamara has long argued that it would be too expensive. Moreover, he points out, if the U.S. plans to defend itself by exploding the enemy's nuclear warheads in the sky, the nation will also need a vast and costly network of fallout shelters to protect its citizens. Nevertheless, the Senate last week voted $167.9 mil lion to buy Nike X hardware. McNamara has also been reluctant to build nuclear-powered warships for economy reasons-so the Senate voted $150 million...
...result, the total amount of light reaching the earth will be fantastically large. But, as any observer can tell, the sky is dark, and some part of Olber's argument must therefore be incorrect...
Layzer, however, argues that any light from stars less than a billion years old would make an "insignificant" contribution to the brightness or darkness of the sky. The microwave energy from the early universe, he said, is a far more important factor, and only because this is so dispersed and weak is the sky dark...