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...Winners DRYOCOCELUS AUSTRALIS The real survivor in the outback. Stick insect thought extinct shows up alive and well off Aussie coast NEAR-SHOEMAKER U.S. spacecraft is first man-made object to land on an asteroid? other than Bruce Willis STEVEN SODERBERGH Sorry Spielberg. Filmmaker faces off against himself for the Best Director Oscar...
...heard that someone claims to own the asteroid on which NASA's spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker landed last week. Is that possible...
Glenn has had a distinguished career in the military, in space and in politics. After piloting a spacecraft for the first manned orbital mission of the United States, Glenn pursued his interest in politics...
Yorke, the group's central songwriter, is obsessed with the disillusioned and the disoriented: a plastic surgeon in a fool's war with gravity, a crash victim who finds his near death experience makes him feel alive, an earthbound stargazer who dreams of abduction by alien spacecraft. His voice is often sampled, distorted by synthesizers, his lyrics broken into elegiac fragments, shards of thoughts, mantras of melancholia. "I woke up sucking a lemon," Yorke sings on Everything in Its Right Place, and the phrase is repeated again and again in a plaintive sample. Throughout Kid A he returns...
That, in any case, is what the prevailing thinking has been. Now, however, it appears that thinking may be wrong. Last week NASA released a flurry of new images from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft that suggest that even today, water may be flowing up from the Martian innards and streaming onto the Martian surface--dramatically increasing the likelihood that at least part of the planet is biologically alive. "If these results prove true," says Ed Weiler, associate administrator of NASA's Office of Space Science, "[they have] profound implications for the possibility of life...