Word: solar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mankind's destiny is to colonize the solar system, said Professor of Applied Astronomy George B. Field yesterday at a lecture sponsored by the Harvard Space Research Group...
...member of the Paine Commission, which was established by Congress to assess the future of the U.S. space program over the next 40 years. "The commission could see no reason to limit humanity to the Earth," said Field. "We immediately began talking in terms of settling the solar system...
...food we had taken aboard and on the weapons containers. We even had to remove the JAFFA markings on the oranges." Further, said the seaman, uniformed Israelis had already demanded that the name Morso be removed from the ship before its arrival in Eilat and replaced temporarily by Solar; the name was changed back to Morso as the vessel approached the Persian Gulf, reaching Iran around...
...academic question; the ozone layer is a blanket of oxygen molecules that protects the earth's surface from the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation, a form of light just beyond the human range of vision. Speculation on the reason for these "holes" has ranged from weather patterns and solar activity to the action of man-made chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), chemicals used as spray-can propellants, refrigerants and industrial solvents...
Grant, Drew and their two younger brothers have lived for 14 years in a house built by the family. For the first two years, it lacked running water, and for nine years, a phone. Until Grant's freshman year here, when Drew hooked up a solar panel, the Colfaxes did not have electricity...