Word: solar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most laymen assume that the moon is the earth's only satellite, but astronomers make no such easy assumption. One of the planets, Saturn, is surrounded by millions of small objects that form its decorative rings, and the earth may have at least a few such followers. The solar system is littered with such homeless rubbish as asteroids, meteors and comets, and some of these may have settled into permanent orbits around the steady earth...
Original Soup. Best theory of how life began assumes that the earth once had a "reducing" atmosphere of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water, as the outer planets have now. Solar radiation and lightning, according to the theory, turned this mixture into organic molecules which gradually grew complex enough to form replicas of themselves. Such reproducing molecules, however simple, are alive...
...carbon dioxide. CO² is comparatively plentiful downwind from industrial areas such as the Ruhr, and there is a good possibility that man's fires and engines are adding so much of it to the atmosphere that the world's climate may be changed drastically by the solar heat that it traps. Rossby wants to find out about this little matter...
...mass of solar information across to a mass audience, Bell's show used live action, patches of stock film (shot in Japan, Australia, France, India), and animated gimmickery. As a bonus, it spared viewers interruptions for commercials. Often Sun was dulled by some too-precious UFA (Gerald McBoing Boing) cartoons, and the interplay between big, brash Mr. Sun and Father Time (spoken by the late Lionel Barrymore), Dr. Research (U.S.C.'s Shakespeare Scholar Dr. Frank Baxter) and a usually superfluous Fiction Writer (Actor Eddie Albert) was too often embarrassingly labored. But the photography, much of it shot through...
...thrust, however, would be comparatively small. It might be fine for cruising around the far reaches of the solar system, but it would not be strong enough to tear the spaceship out of the clutch of the earth's gravitation...