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...dark absorption lines, which stood out "as bold as fence posts," revealed that all the water vapor in the Martian atmosphere equals about a cubic mile of water, less than in a large lake on earth. Spread over the planet's surface, it would be only a thousandth of an inch deep. There was about twice as much water vapor in the Northern Hemisphere (where it is now late summer) than in the southern half (where it is late winter). This suggests that the excess vapor in the north came from the melting...
...ruin the gesture by taking out a full-page newspaper advertisement the next day celebrating its wondrous beneficence. The Trustees of our orchestras are unconquerably reactionary, hopelessly clinging to the Romantic core of the repertoire. The ungainly orchestral apparat of a tableau vivant of funereal men playing the ten thousandth repetition of Beethoven's Fifth before a benign audience has understandably driven young people to films and plays, where one can speak and move, argue and refine, receive yet enter into self-expression...
...dying stars that had shrunk by gravitational contraction into white dwarfs-or into neutron stars,* which have been postulated but never actually discovered. But this explanation has its difficulties: if they do oscillate, according to theory, white dwarfs should pulse once every eight seconds or slower, neutron stars every thousandth of a second...
...calculated; round-trip time to a Mercurial valley would be longer than to a mountaintop. It was also essential for the researchers to screen out any extraneous radio noise that might interfere with the attenuated, incredibly weak return signals, which, Shapiro says, had "less than a thousandth of the power that is expended by a housefly walking up a wall at a speed of one millimeter a century...
...began to move behind the sun, M.I.T. computers detected increasing delays in the return of radar signals slowed by the sun's gravitational field. Plotted against the theoretical delays predicted by the Einstein equations, the actual delay time formed a remarkably similar curve, increasing to approximately one five-thousandth of a second just before Mercury passed behind...