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Most of the objects on the plates are stars that belong to the Milky Way galaxy, but beyond them are external galaxies which are so far away that they may be considered motionless. As the Milky Way galaxy revolves majestically, its stars seem to stream past the background of distant galaxies. The stars themselves seem to move at varying speeds because of their varying distances and their own individual motions within the galaxy...
...GULF STREAM NORTH (253 pp.)-Earl Conrad-Doubleday...
...spent their last hours getting rid of other information that might prove valuable to the West. Black smoke belched from the embassy chimneys as files went into fireplaces, and on the embassy lawn a Russian stood guard with a hose over a bonfire, not hesitating to turn a full stream of water into the face of any snooper peering through the hedge. In Moscow the Russians held up the departure of the Australian embassy staff, after first ordering them out of the country within three days...
...would fall 330 ft., exposing 90,000 square miles of new land. Inflow from the Atlantic could then generate power, but other effects might be even more interesting. Ley thinks that the cold water that now flows out of the bottom of the Strait of Gibraltar keeps the Gulf Stream away from the coast of France. With this barrier removed, Western Europe might have a balmier climate...
...center of the rings. When the pilot wants to stop quickly on landing, he opens a valve, and a blast of air from the engine's compressor shoots down a pipe running through the tailpipe and is released at about right angles into the center of the stream of gases. This diverts the gases into an expanding cone and makes them hit the rings, which are shaped to catch them and reverse their direction. Aerojet says that its device, which has already been flight tested, gives up to 50% of reversed thrust...