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Finally, there were the billions of signals sent between the doomed shuttle and NASA computers at Cape Canaveral's Launch Control and in Houston's Mission Control before and during the 73 seconds of its flight. The shuttle contained an extraordinary array of monitoring devices (sensors to detect pressures, temperatures, fuel flow, and so on), which reported their findings thousands of times a second. This flow of information, or telemetry, was so constant and so enormous that a lot of it was not sent either to the shuttle cockpit or to the consoles at Launch and Mission controls. Instead...
...Voyager swung behind Uranus, it bounced radio waves off the rings and discovered that they are quite different from those of Saturn, which contain an abundance of fine particles. The Uranian rings are made largely of dark "boulders," most of them more than a yard wide, that circle the planet once every eight hours. Many scientists believe they may be the remnants of a large moon that shattered in an ancient cataclysm...
...terminal gloom over any feasible Star Wars defense system. With a boost phase of only two minutes--less than half that of conventional weapons--fast-burning rockets could penetrate the atmosphere and detonate their "throw-weight" of multiple warheads in substantially greater numbers than proposed SDI equipment could contain...
Davis discovered that the active ingredient in the "zombie potion" was a species of puffer, or blowfish. Many of these fish contain a tetrodotoxin, one of the most powerful non-protein poisons known...
Reagan said he wanted to "redefine government's role: not to control, not to command, not to contain us; but to help in times of need; above all, to create a ladder of opportunity to full employment so all Americans can climb toward economic power and justice on their...