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Preserving parity will be difficult enough. The balance of strategic forces is already being eroded, principally by the U.S.S.R.'s ongoing ICBM buildup. For some years Western experts have been concerned that the land-based portion of the American strategic deterrent-1,052 Minuteman and Titan II missiles in underground silos-might soon be susceptible to a surprise first strike by the Soviet Union's own increasingly accurate, destructive and numerous land-based warheads. Such a pre-emptive blow, if successful, would seriously weaken the ability of the U.S. to retaliate with iCBMs against Soviet military targets...
...sparks-dramatizes one of the most fundamental metaphors in mythology: the creation of an artificial man. It is an idea that can be traced back to the folklore of man's own creation. According to Greek legend, the first humans were robots formed out of clay by the Titan Prometheus...
Voyager 1's performance was the equal of the marvels it found. Commanded only by its own computers, the robot soared past the mysterious moon Titan, approaching to within 4,000 km (2,500 miles) of its shrouded surface. Gathering ever more speed under the tug of Saturnian gravity, it plunged downward toward the outer edge of Saturn's rings, swirling bits of cosmic debris. Reaching a peak velocity of 91,000 km (56,600 miles) per hour, Voyager skirted within 124,240 km (77,200 miles) of the planet's banded cloud tops for its nearest...
...similar features around Uranus and Jupiter were thought to be unique. Before Voyager's visit only six Saturnian rings and a few gaps between them were known. Now there seem to be 1,000 rings or so. One of the so-called gaps may contain several dozen ringlets. Titan, the largest moon in the solar system, appears to be wrapped in a dense atmosphere of nitrogen vapors, rather than methane-the best guess before Voyager-and its surface may be awash in a cold sea of liquid nitrogen. Saturn's entourage of other satellites, until now no more...
...ring, disconnected from the parent planet and slightly tilted as observed from the earth. From a terrestrial perspective the ears would periodically vanish because the angle of vision changed during Saturn's voyage around the sun. A superb telescope-maker, Huygens also discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and calculated the time it took the ringed planet Huygens make a single journey around the sun (nearly 30 years). Wryly, Huygens speculated about the people who might inhabit these cold distant worlds: "It is impossible but that their way of living must be very different from ours," he wrote...