Word: weightlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Indeed, gravity -- or the lack of it -- also plays a big part in the rings' creation. The moons are so small and weightless that chunks of rock can fly off them with ease -- an effect we couldn't hope to repeat back home. "A similar explosion on Earth would release a lot of debris, but it would fall back to the ground," says Kluger. Indeed, the only rings astronomy buffs can ever hope to see themselves are those around Saturn; Jupiter's shroud will forever remain invisible to the Earth-bound...
...talking two centuries of pure American spirit--formless and weightless but as powerful as our arsenals, the stuff of thumping pulse and shiny eyes and the voice of glory raised high by horns and reeds. The U.S. Marine Band, a band now judged by experts to be the best the world has ever produced, turned 200 this past weekend. On Friday the drums shook the South Lawn of the White House as President Clinton paid tribute. The next evening the piccolos rode the heavens in a Kennedy Center concert attended by the men and women who run this country...
...universe may have just gotten a lot heavier. A team of American and Japanese physicists announced Friday that the neutrino -- a pervasive but elusive subatomic particle long considered to be weightless -- may have mass after all, which could solve the mystery of why the universe doesn't seem as heavy as science says it should...
...first thing you notice when your plane suddenly begins to drop is that you're becoming weightless. For those who like roller coasters, the sensation may not be too bad. Quickly, however, zero-G can become negative-G, meaning anything not fastened or seat-belted down will slam into the ceiling. Food trays get tossed, cutlery gets flung, carry-ons fly up as tray tables bang down. After a few seconds the plane stabilizes, and anything--or anyone--stuck to the ceiling crashes to the floor. Another case of midair turbulence is quickly over...
...note the Beatles reference) sold more than 2 million copies around the globe. Yet none of his earlier books prepare one for his massive new The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Knopf; 611 pages; $25.95), which digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan's recent past to explain the weightless, desultory disconnections of a virtual society where nothing feels real and nobody really feels...