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...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Some people envision sex as a noble Venus. Others picture it as a mischievous Cupid. Some think it inspiring, others downright funny. In his four playlets, Robert Anderson uses it to tease, to tickle, and to touch his audience, at times moving them to laughter, and at times to tears...
Hasted and McDowell propose to capture the quark-oxygen atom by launching a Venus's-flytrap rocket that would open its jaws at an altitude of 30 miles, adsorb the oxygen atoms on an activated charcoal surface and bring them back to earth. Any oxygen atoms combined with quarks could then be identified by examining the sample with a mass spectrometer, which would separate them out because of their odd mass and fractional charge...
...Drop. Looking skyward, Surveyor spotted Venus, photographed it and transmitted the pictures to scientists, who will use them to obtain a precise fix on the spacecraft. Knowing the position of Venus in the sky and the angle of the camera mirror at the time each picture was taken, scientists can determine Surveyor's exact location...
...Bugs. Not worth it, says a study group led by Biologist Norman Horowitz of the California Institute of Technology. In a report in Science, the scientists argue that Mars has too little oxygen or water and too much ultraviolet radiation to support the growth of earthly organisms, and that Venus apparently has surface temperatures high enough to kill any earthly bugs. In any event, the report says, there is little chance that organisms entrapped within solid structures in the spacecraft could work their way free. Thus it is important only to kill microorganisms on the exposed surfaces of the spacecraft...
...same issue of Science, a group headed by Caltech Geologist Bruce Murray contends that the Russians may well have already contaminated both Venus and Mars. In 1965, there was a failure aboard Russia's Venus 3, which was to parachute a sterilized instrument capsule to the surface of Venus. As a result, they believe, both the capsule and the unsterilized spacecraft hit the Venusian surface. A similar mishap that same year may have caused the unsterilized Russian probe called Zond 2 to impact on the surface of Mars...