Word: ultraviolet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if Viking fails to detect living things, there is always the possibility that life on Mars is based on a chemistry different from that of any known life forms, or that it sought shelter even deeper in the ground as protection against the sun's deadly ultraviolet rays...
...first moon landing on July 21, 1969, has been turned into a commissary storeroom for ketchup and cookies. The massive lunar receiving laboratory, designed to analyze the 838 lbs. of rocks hauled back from the moon, has been dismantled and turned into a medical research laboratory. The seven ultraviolet showers built to cleanse astronauts and technicians of unknown moon bugs are now stainless steel corridors leading nowhere...
Much work will be conducted under the aegis of NASA'S Operation Kohoutek, directed by Astronomer Stephen P. Maran. Involving hundreds of scientists and millions of dollars in hardware, the observations will be largely made from above the atmosphere, which blocks out the ultraviolet and infrared frequencies useful in gathering data about the comet's composition and structure. At least five sounding rockets and two balloons will be launched to view Kohoutek. The comet will also be chased by two highflying, instrument-crammed jets. Other information will be gathered by Copernicus, NASA'S orbiting astronomical observatory...
...sexual preference questionnaire," completely anonymous, and send it around to all his friends, who would think it was for some sociology thesis, fill it out, and return it to a post office box. Reid would collect the replies and then identify which friend filled out which questionnaire by the ultraviolet ink he had previously coded them with. He never actually did this, of course, but then again neither did I; I had planned to identify the returned questionnaries with inconspicuous pencil dots. I recently talked to a graduate of Lowell House who said that he planned to use slightly torn...
...process is not chlorine, which purifies most of the U.S. water supply, but a gas called ozone -a form of oxygen with three (rather than the more common two) atoms in its molecular structure. Ozone is formed when ordinary gaseous oxygen is exposed to electrical discharges or ultraviolet radiation; it has a characteristic acrid odor noticeable after electrical storms and in the vicinity of ultraviolet lamps. In large concentrations, it is dangerous to breathe because it oxidizes, or burns, healthy tissue. Bubbled through water, it attacks and oxidizes polio and other harmful viruses, and completely eliminates foul smells...