Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chunks of debris dating back to the earliest days of the solar system, meteorites are intently studied by scientists for any clues they may offer to the primordial past. But even the highest expectations did not prepare University of Chicago Scientists Robert Clayton, Lawrence Grossman and Toshiko K. Mayeda for what they discovered while studying fragments of the Allende meteorite, found near Pueblito de Allende in Mexico in 1969. Tiny grains of dust imbedded in the chips contained an isotope of oxygen (oxygen 16) in virtually pure form. Ordinary oxygen in the earth's atmosphere−and presumably that...
Rendezvous with Rama, also offers film makers enormous opportunities for awesome props. Its true protagonist is not a person at all but a huge artificial world that sails into the solar system in the year 2130. At that point in space/ time−to make that abominable locution perfectly clear−the solar system has been politically organized into a federation of planets inhabited by descendants of earth pioneers...
...Allende included two new officers in the reshuffle. To replace Admiral Raúl Montero as Finance Minister he appointed Admiral Daniel Arellano, and Four-Star General Rolando González became Minister of Mines. To the position of Minister of Defense, Allende named a civilian, Orlando Letelier del Solar, until recently Ambassador to Washington. The sensitive post of Interior Minister fell to Carlos Briones, a close personal friend. Briones, as it happens, has managed to stay on good terms with former President Eduardo Frei Montalva, leader of the opposition Christian Democrats. If a crisis should require contact between Chile...
...life, what does a scientist like Francis Crick do for an encore? He tackles something even bigger. With Leslie Orgel, of California's Salk Institute, Crick has now taken on the mystery of the origin of life. Writing in Icarus, a monthly devoted to studies of the solar system, the two scientists theorize that life on earth may have sprung from tiny organisms from a distant planet-sent here by spaceship as part of a deliberate act of seeding...
During their long stroll, the astronauts worked four hours successfully erecting a second sunshade to protect Skylab's bare spot (cabin temperatures dropped as much as eight degrees into the low 70s). They also reloaded their solar-telescope array with fresh film and set up a micrometeorite-measuring experiment. Meanwhile, Skylab continued to be plagued by glitches. A coolant leak was discovered in one air-conditioning system, and suspected in another. A short circuit briefly troubled the telescope mount. Several external lights, intended for use during the space walk, failed to work, as did a video-tape recorder...