Word: solarization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paul II made a speech vindicating Galileo Galilei. In 1633 the Vatican put the astronomer under house arrest for writing, against church orders, that the earth revolves around the sun. The point of the papal statement was not to concede the obvious fact that Galileo was right about the solar system. Rather, the Pope wanted to restore and honor Galileo's standing as a good Christian. In the 17th century, said the Pope, theologians failed to distinguish between belief in the Bible and interpretation of it. Galileo contended that the Scriptures cannot err but are often misunderstood. This insight, said...
...Unlike solar eclipses, which can be seen only in certain earth where it's nighttime, Noyes said."Millions of people will see it tonight," he said...
...lesions, known as solar or actinic keratoses, commonly appear as rough red areas on the skin. Wrinkling--technically known as photoaging--and the lesions are different abnormalities related to exposure to dangerous ultraviolet rays...
...novel properties of such materials makethem useful in solar cells and in the structuralcomponents of jet engines, Aziz says...
...atom by atom or molecule by molecule. His colleagues have already made motors smaller in diameter than a human hair. Drexler believes a bundle of nanorobots, weighing practically nothing, would be the perfect interstellar emissaries. Having arrived at a planet or asteroid around some distant star, perhaps in a solar sailship pushed to high speeds by a powerful laser beam from earth, they would go to work, antlike, building radio transmitters and other gear to report home for new instructions. They could also reproduce themselves and their ships in order to send off a new set of explorer robots...