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John S. Langford, president of Aurora Flight Sciences of Manassis, Va., thinks he has the solution to this problem. "Atmospheric scientists have long had to settle for the hand-me-down platforms from the military," Langford says. "[Aurora is] developing the Perseus and Theseus aircraft, taking advantage of a convergence in technologies, to fly as high as 25 kilometers, or more...
...Perseus and Theseus are both "flying robots," Anderson says, unmanned planes that are guided by remote control...
Langford hopes to keep the Perseus and Theseus aircraft inexpensive enough that researchers can afford to use it. "In numbers, the Perseus will cost about $500,000 and each flight will cost $10,000 to $20,000," Langford says...
These meteors are known as Perseids because they appear to emanate from the constellation Perseus, just as the Leonids, cast-off material from another comet, appear to radiate from a point in Leo. While most of the cometary debris consists of small particles, each tiny piece traveling at such high speed packs a mighty wallop capable of inflicting severe damage on anything it encounters. Consequently, satellites orbiting above the protective atmosphere during a heavy meteor shower are vulnerable. With this danger in mind, NASA prudently postponed last week's scheduled launch of the shuttle Discovery, which otherwise would have been...
...collective memory of the war against the predator beasts is preserved in myth and fairy tale. Typically, a mythical hero starts out by taking on the carnivorous monster that is ravaging the land: Perseus saves Andromeda from becoming a sea monster's snack. Theseus conquers the Minotaur who likes to munch on Athenian youth. Beowulf destroys the loathsome night-feeding Grendel. Heracles takes on a whole zoo of horrors: lions, hydras, boars. In European fairy tales it's the wolves you have to watch out for -- if the cannibal witches don't get you first...