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...Being a little quicker than the snail," replies Father Grass, tucking everybody snugly in, "... and never getting there, children." Holy Spaceship Earth! Leaping Electronic Village! Could this agitator for 19th century liberalism be right...
...puzzled observers, is a metallic cylinder more than 30 miles long and twelve across and weighing about ten trillion tons. With time running out and Rama's intentions unknown, decisions have to be made. The nearest humans to Rama are Commander Bill Norton and his crew aboard the spaceship Endeavour. They undertake a reconnaissance of Rama's innards, crawling about the spotless metal sky like flies on some behemoth's twitching flank...
...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...
...down on the earth. Looking out into space, Jack Lousma was equally impressed: "There's nothing except a bit of light reflecting off the solar panels, a few stars and a half-moon." Both astronauts were outside Skylab, finally taking their long-postponed space walk. From inside the spaceship, Skylab Commander Al Bean sounded envious. "Well, you will surely remember this day for a long time," he said. Indeed they would. Before Garriott and Lousma re-entered the orbital laboratory last week, they had spent some 6½ hours outside-nearly doubling the endurance record for a space walk...
Portman plans a 54-story extravaganza including a 1,050-seat theater located below ground level; twelve floors of shops, meeting rooms and restaurants; and above it all, a 37-story-high, wide-open "atrium" around which 2,020 rooms will be arrayed. Through the cavernous atrium, twelve spaceship-like glass elevators will zoom to a bronzed-glass rooftop penthouse containing a cocktail lounge and a revolving restaurant...