Word: planets
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...guiding force behind all of man's actions. It is the seat of all human thought and consciousness, the source of the in genuity that made it possible for man's ancestors to survive and eventually to dominate their physically more powerful adversaries and evolve into the planet's highest form of life. Everything that man has ever been, everything he will be, is the product of his brain. It is the brain that enabled the first humanoid to use tools and that gives his genetic successors the ability to build spacecraft, explore the universe and analyze...
FANTASTIC PLANET is a splashy French animated science-fiction story. The animation is slightly halting, the style derived a little from the late Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher (TIME, April 11, 1972) and owing quite a lot to Edward Gorey. The script is too much in the debt of a lot of standard sci-fi ideas, most prominently the notion that there is a distant planet where humans are kept as pets or treated as wild animals by the native humanoid types. Fantastic Planet is about how the humans win their independence and all creatures come to live in harmony...
...SOME senses, Nixon is right. Yes, America is by far the largest consumer of energy in the world. With only one-sixteenth of the planet's population, we burn up nearly three-quarters of its total energy. We live amid constant waste and abuse of everything natural, from hills ravaged by stripmining to the meat loaf that every child is scolded for leaving on his plate...
...earth's own radiation belts but continued to radio back data after the historic encounter. Indeed, if Pioneer's tiny nu clear power packs and instruments keep functioning, the spacecraft's signals may well be received on earth until it reaches the orbit of the planet Uranus about 14 years from now. What is more, Pioneer's success clears the way for a twin, Pioneer 11, already en route to Jupiter and then possibly to Saturn...
...also additional proof of Jupiter's powerful gravity. During the brief flyby, Pioneer was suddenly hit by ten tiny meteoroids, after a rate of only one hit every 25 days during its journey; this indicated that the Jovian gravitational field scoops up and concentrates the particles as the planet whirls round...