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Later the column proceeded as a cylinder of white smoke; it seemed to move ponderously. A hole was punched through the clouds, but two fog rings appeared well above the white smoke column. There was a spontaneous cheer from the observers. Dr. von Neumann said, "that was at least 5,000 tons and probably a lot more." [109]
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union took the lead in the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957. Sputnik was the first artificial satellite in orbit around the Earth, and the surprise of its successful launch, compounded by the resounding failure of Project Vanguard to launch an American satellite after two attempts, had been dubbed the "Sputnik crisis" by the media and ...
In his 1998 book Destiny's Road, Von Neumann machines are scattered throughout the human colony world Destiny and its moon Quicksilver in order to build and maintain technology and to make up for the lack of the resident humans' technical knowledge; the Von Neumann machines primarily construct a stretchable fabric cloth capable of acting as a ...
Moon landing deniers say there's clear photographic evidence of this, and point out that because there's no breeze on the moon, this must be fake. Apollo 11astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin, on the Moon ...
The humor magazine that began in 1952 as a comic book making fun of other comic books soon became an institution for mocking authority in all spheres of life, from TV, movies and advertising, to ...
Shockwave cosmology [1] [2] [3] is a non-standard cosmology proposed by Joel Smoller and Blake Temple in 2003. In this model, the “ big bang ” is an explosion inside a black hole , producing the expanding volume of space and matter that includes the observable universe .
The destruction of the Moon features in several works, mostly of science fiction. [1] Examples include: R. C. Sherriff novel The Hopkins Manuscript [21] The 2002 film The Time Machine [22] The 2013 film Oblivion [23] The Doctor Who episode "Kill the Moon" [24] Neal Stephenson novel Seveneves [25] The season 1 finale of the Netflix series ...
Neuman, played by actress Claudia Doumit, has been a fixture in The Boys since Season 2, and finds herself playing a crucial role in Gen V as she makes her way to Godolkin University for a talk ...