Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long wait for Japan's first Mars mission, but timing is everything in space. "Flying from any cosmic point A to any cosmic point B is like leading ducks when you're hunting," says TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger, coauthor of the book "Apollo 13." "You can't aim for where a planet is, you have to aim for where it's going to be." With a Martian year lasting roughly two of our years, missing the rendezvous means you have a while to wait before the motion of the two bodies coincides again. "If an error of one degree...
...London Times best seller earlier this year and has been climbing several U.S. lists since being published here last month. Thomas More is not hagiography. Yet here is the paradox: it has the power of a second, secular canonization, establishing More, sans halo, as a martyr for a lost cosmic connectedness, the exemplar of a once commonplace mysticism that Ackroyd has evoked and mourned in recent work...
...will withstand pressures created by stratospheric solar heating and retain enough helium to circle the globe five to 10 times. The first of NASA's smaller trial balloons is to be launched in March 1999, to be followed a year later by a demonstration flight carrying a Washington University cosmic-ray detector. Over the horizon Tueller sees more astronomy and astrophysics experiments as well as Earth monitoring, such as observing the ozone hole, and perhaps even semipermanent balloons to replace some of the cellular-phone towers dotting the landscape. Assuming, of course, there's any money left over from...
What the elect don't know, but Allen insists on, is that the state of grace they enjoy is not secular sainthood. That is to say, it is generally unearned by good works and suffering. It is, at best, a capricious cosmic joke and therefore nothing to get puffed up about. "I've become the kind of woman I've always hated," Robin says wonderingly at the end of her journey, "but I'm happier." There's a moral buried inside that irony. Or maybe it's the nasty core truth of our times. Whatever it is, Celebrity...
...longer life expectancy than life in the universe in general. This is a reasonable statement, when applied to life in general. But Aczel is talking about intelligent life, and in particular, intelligent life that can communicate through space. On both of these counts, we are the cosmic equivalent of newborns, making Aczel's conclusion flawed...