Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thor-Delta combination was to have launched an Orbiting Solar Observatory, the second of its kind, next Tuesday. Leo Goldberg, Higgins Professor of Astronomy, and William Liller, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Astronomy, are in charge of a Harvard team that has spent over five years building an ultraviolet spectrometer for the OSO. Their instrument, demolished yesterday, was meant to look at light waves from...
...year 1894, Cygnian scientists, hunched over their radios, heard the familiar static of space crowded into the background by an unfamiliar signal. The message was undecipherable, but its meaning, they decided, was clear. They were receiving greetings from Earth, that little planet in the solar system some 66 trillion miles away...
Corning says that its dark-light glass is still in the laboratory stage, but it is no mere scientific stunt, and Corning men are working hard on practical applications. Some possibilities: windows to keep solar light and heat out of air-conditioned buildings, auto windshields with an upper section treated to fend off glare by day and turn transparent when the sun is not shining, and sunglasses able automatically to adjust their density to light conditions...
...ocean, and its white surface reflects so much sunlight that the earth's heat input is reduced by 4%. The earth's general temperature falls a few critical degrees, and ice sheets begin to grow larger in the Northern Hemisphere too. The bigger they get, the more solar energy they reflect back into space, and the colder the earth becomes...
...vacuum of space, the properly suited explorer will have to be equipped with clothing that will let him work and move about actively. Outside a spaceship, where he may be called upon to make repairs, he will have to maneuver in zero gravity; his clothing will have toward off solar heating twice as strong as on the earth's surface. Any space suit will have to be equipped with a portable oxygen supply and its own air-conditioning apparatus...