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On a balloon ascent undertaken to carry out meteorological investigations and to test a celestial navigation method using a particular type of quadrant ("Libellenquadrant"), the Wegener brothers set a new record for a continuous balloon flight, remaining aloft 52.5 hours from 5–7 April 1906. [10] His observations during his time at the ...
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 91% of 142 sampled critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 8/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "The sweetly nostalgic Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood finds Richard Linklater reusing visual and thematic ingredients in a deeply personal, freshly inspired ...
The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...
Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood” reflects one of the director’s childhood fantasies, informed by growing up in South Texas, a stone’s throw …
In the end this venture would claim Wegener's life during a return trip from the Eismitte station together with expedition member Rasmus Villumsen. [2] Wegener had experience as an Arctic explorer. Previously he had taken part as a meteorologist in the 1906–1908 Danmark Expedition and the 1912-1913 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land.
A second problem was that Wegener's estimate of the speed of continental motion, 250 cm/year (100 in/year), was implausibly high. [34] The currently accepted rate for the separation of the Americas from Europe and Africa is about 2.5 cm/year (1 in/year).) [ 35 ] Furthermore, Wegener was treated less seriously because he was not a geologist.
The hazy shapes floating through dark space in Frank J. Malina's wacky kinetic light box, "Spring II" (1959), animates the visualization of psychic thought patterns in the great Surrealist ...
September 1 – Karl August Folkers (died 1997), American biochemist. September 4 – Max Delbrück (died 1981), German-born biologist. September 30 – Vera Faddeeva (died 1983), Soviet mathematician. October 2 – Willy Ley (died 1969), German-born scientific populariser. November 3 – Carl Benjamin Boyer (died 1976), American historian of ...