Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside the building, which is roughly cubical and 61 ft. long, is a three-quarter sphere made of a spidery crisscross of thin-walled steel lined with wire mesh. The whole thing, 30 ft. in diameter, is mounted so that it can be tilted 65° in any direction. It can also revolve, and a platform poking up to its center can revolve independently...
...Greenland. On the inside surface of the sphere are 507 tiny lights that simulate all the conspicuous stars in the sky. Even the colors of the most important stars are matched by means of niters. When the student of air navigation stands on the little platform, he sees overhead with almost frightening realism the enigmatic points of light that will be expected to lead him in wartime around a blacked-out world. For daytime flights the stars are extinguished, and a single light plays the part...
...praised the Chinese for being generous and brave, but then coupled that with a sentiment not heard in China since the Communists took over: "As a people, the Americans are very generous and brave. In the sphere of scientific knowledge the Americans have developed to such an extent that they can make this world a happy and prosperous place to live in." He would, he said, now like to visit...
Last week, moreover, there were four major pieces of evidence that Walt Disney is dramatically enlarging his sphere of influence. Items...
...heavier than nonmetallic solid hydrogen. No such pressure can be reached in the earth's laboratories, but theoretical studies have proved that metallic hydrogen is a reality. Since the pressure at the center of Jupiter is something like 30 million atmospheres, there is plenty of room for a sphere of metallic hydrogen...