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...founders, California State University Student Richard Stellar (his real last name, he insists), reports that orders are now coming in at the rate of 25 to 50 a day. The most sought after extraterrestrial neighborhood is the planet Vulcan, popularized by Star Trek's Mr. Spock. "We're only at the grass-roots beginning," proclaims Stellar...
...this year-or at least not so "Vulcanically." One unamused woman last year resisted a Krewe member's kiss and, after he persisted, took her grievance to the St. Paul human rights commission. She argued that the exchange of sooty kisses should be limited to consenting adults. So, when the carnival opens later this month, new rules will be in force. Only one Vulcan will be allowed to fire off blanks. No kissing will be permitted-only a messy smudging of the cheeks and only with consent...
...engines. But it was just an average Mauritanian afternoon, 114 and breezy....Much of the equipment Kern had brought to Africa was homemade, including a coelostat that incorporated a bicycle chain, part of a gun mount, and lead from melted car batteries.... Total eclipses are the ideal time for Vulcan hunts, since the sun is high but the sky is dark. Fischer was going to use an enormous aerial camera from World War II to photograph the region between the sun and Mercury....Mauritania has one modern hospital. Six doctors. Four midwives. Fifty-eight secondary school teachers. But that...
...Waspish Captain Kirk, played in a father-like manner by William Shatner; communications expert Uhura portrayed by the black and beautiful Nichele Nichols; Sulu, the oriental helmsman played by Walter Koenig; Dr. McCoy, the pacifist, depicted by DeForest Kelley; and of course the one and only Mr. Spock, half-Vulcan and half-human, portrayed by Leonard Nimoy. The crew becomes involved in a variety of intriguing tales, all of which make some comment on today's society. The shows deal with everything from sex to war, from racism to religion...
...James Baker, designer of optical systems. He had constructed a special camera and lens apparatus to black out the corona and search through the resulting darkness for objects within the orbit of Mercury. Astronomers have long talked about a hidden planet near the sun, tentatively named Vulcan, and Baker hoped to find this, or hitherto unseen comets. Only weeks of analysis will show whether he succeeded...