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...Europe only for the shopping bargains would be like going to the Super Bowl to buy a souvenir T shirt. Looking at the rose windows of Chartres, one of the great creations in the Western world, does not cost anything at all, nor does the view of the moon rising over the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Sights like these, combined with the pleasures of good food and drink, are the perennial bargains of European travel...
...last Harvard degree holder in space was Harrison J. Schmidt, who earned a Harvard Ph.D in geology in 1961 and walked on the moon in December 1972 as a member of the Apollo 17 crew. After leaving NASA, Schmidt served one term as a U.S. Senator from New Mexico...
...Sleeping Gypsy, by now perhaps the most famous dream image in Western art. The silhouette of a sniffing lion, with one unwinking yellow eye and a tail stiffly outstretched, its tip erect as though charged with static electricity, quivering like Rousseau's own paintbrush; the swollen, white Melies moon; the black nomad like a toppled statue, her feet with their pink toenails gravely sticking up; the djellaba, with its rippling stripes of coral, Naples yellow, cerulean; and the lute, like a pale lunar egg, hanging on the brown sand as the moon hangs in the blue night. Reproduced a millionfold...
...requirements, according to Fletcher: "The computers must be able to operate in a nuclear environment and must be hardened to survive radiation and shock. To keep crucial command, control and communications capabilities out of the fray, some of the computers would be placed in high orbit halfway to the moon." Humans would make the key strategic decisions in advance, determining under what conditions the missile defense would start firing, and devise a computer system that could translate those decisions into a program. In the end the defensive response would be out of human hands: it would be activated by computer...
...resembling a reasonable cost. That seems the least likely outcome. No one should say flatly that it is impossible, however. Anyone who does is speedily reminded by S.D.I. advocates that eminent scientists once doubted the feasibility of building nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles and of undertaking flights to the moon...