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Some scientists have attempted to explain away the discrepancy by suggesting that the astronomers of antiquity had observed the star when it was low in the sky; like the setting sun, it appeared red because of particles in the earth's atmosphere. Now two German researchers argue that the ancients did see a red Sirius--and as recently as the 6th century...
...ancients, the two closely spaced stars looked like a single pinpoint, with a decided reddish tint imparted by the dominating giant. The combined light of the binary pair would certainly have been brighter than it is today, and indeed Babylonian cuneiforms tell of Sirius' being visible in the daytime sky...
...about. He said that right now we can't protect ourselves from nuclear weapons, and that's why the President wants to build a Peace Shield." Chunky red missiles begin to rain down, but they harmlessly disintegrate (pop! pop!) when they hit a bluish , Crayola arc in the sky. Presto, the arc becomes a shimmering rainbow, and the frowning sun begins to smile...
...worse part of the past five years, Faust, 50, has led a life more damnable than Christopher Marlowe ever dreamed, saying touching things like "Don't read everything you believe in the newspapers." Then abruptly last week, backed up against a blue-gray November sky, Notre Dame's beleaguered coach finally answered the hate mail of every irate fan in Christendom. Four days before the final game on his contract, Faust gave his notice. "Sometimes you don't know why these things happen," he said of 26 losses in 57 games, the direst total in 97 years of Irish history...
...Everglades suggest the presence of a subterranean mass of metallic ore that could conceivably be the remains of an asteroid. Finally, scientific journals have noted that a commonly found rock stratum, called the Ocala formation, is suspiciously absent in southern Florida. Petuch suggests that it was hurled into the sky during impact...