Word: venusized
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...Mars, whose orbit is outside the earth's, the spaceship must climb up the side of the sun's gravitational pit-by speeding up. To reach Venus it must climb down-by slowing down...
...science of celestial mechanics (motions of the planets) had been highly developed by the astronomers. The astronauts took it over, added some features of their own. Long before World War II, when no rocket had flown above buzzard altitude, they drew charts of imaginary voyages to Mars or Venus that match almost exactly those drawn today...
...voyage to Venus, which revolves nearer the sun, the space navigator starts his ship in the direction opposite to the earth's orbital motion. Its net departure speed above escape velocity is subtracted from the orbital speed. This makes it move too slowly to stay on the earth's orbit, so the sun's gravitation curves it inward to Venus...
With the problems of radio and TV transmission from outer-space satellites practically solved, we can at last look forward to laxative commercials from the region of Mars, and words from our sponsor on "How to Break the Habit" from the sphere of Venus. The Man in the Moon will no doubt switch to Chesterfields-and there will be more sinister orders to come. From the ridiculous to the subliminal is only a second step...
...Venusberg. Some of her lovers ran successively, some concurrently. Some remained hers for months, others for years. Author Benjamin (Adolphe) Constant was in Germaine's toils for almost a quarter-century. By middle age, she ruled, in Author Herold's words, "like Venus over the damned souls in the Venusberg, like Calypso over shipwrecked travelers, like Circe over her menagerie...