Word: solarization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cornell University astronomer Carl Sagan, perhaps the most prominent champion of the search for extraterrestrial life, was exultant. "If the results are verified," he said, "it is a turning point in human history, suggesting that life exists not just on two planets in one paltry solar system but throughout this magnificent universe...
...Most of [NASA]'s great adventures are well-timed" to precede budget decisions, said Buck, who listed the Apollo moon landing and "most of the probes into the solar system" as examples...
...molecules were recovered from cracks in the rock, which means they were probably deposited after the rock was formed, and not left behind by heating and cooling. Also present in the samples are magnetite and iron sulfide, which on Earth are associated with bacterial action. "As the number of solar systems and planets we've discovered increases," says TIME's Jeffrey Kluger, "it becomes less and less likely that we are alone in the universe. The major import of this discovery could be the realization that life doesn't have to be an outrageously unlikely assemblage of improbable elements. Perhaps...
...that molecules of ammonia and acetic acid linked up to form basic amino acid. Amino acids, which are the basic building blocks of life, form the proteins and DNA that make up all living organisms. The Sagittarius cloud is believed to be similar to the cloud which formed our solar system. This latest discovery, according to the scientists, could back up the theory that comets and asteroids, carrying biologically important chemicals, descended on earth to help form life. It is also possible the chemicals were present on earth when it first formed. The scientists will now focus on finding glycine...
...seemingly infinite groves of oranges and olives in what was a combination of malaria-infested swamps and barren dessert before Israeli Independence was achieved. Why were there no pictures of the fields of green in previously arid areas of the Negev? Why were there no pictures of the solar heating panels on the roofs of Israeli houses and other technological achievements which mark the modern Jewish state...