It is no surprise, then, to find that the investigation into the loss of the shuttle Columbia is following eerily similar lines to the investigation into the explosion of Challenger in 1986.In that year, the cause of the accident was fixed in the public's mind after a dramatic public experiment by Richard Feynman, a Nobel prize-winning physicist.
In the near-parody monochrome massage you get in the Basement, the hub of dramatic experiment in the city, you are rubbed up the right way by a therapist in white pyjamas, under a bright light which invites you to imagine colour by its absence.
Withl start wits its launch and journey to Saturn, then see how Cassini ofueled nearlyexhaustede planethisrisgs, surface and many many moons — and then the craft's fitsl descent.
He listed two experiments on living creatures: "Experiment 40," which tested the ability of insects to fly under reduced air pressure, and the dramatic "Experiment 41," which demonstrated the reliance of living creatures on air for their survival.
"It followed immediately after the sinking of the Titanic, which to me is its analogue...The catastrophic failure of each set the stage for a century of dramatic experiments with the relationships between humans and the worlds they make for themselves".
Harry Hollingworth of Columbia University in New York City did a series of slightly dramatic experiments in the 1930s, sponsored by the Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation, makers of chewing gum.
In one of his early dramatic experiments, which involved a conversation between an old man and a woman on a park bench, the woman said, "Terror hangs over the night like a hawk".
His ten-person team of researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has battled Kandel to a draw by producing, in a dramatic series of experiments, fruit flies with photographic memory.
"The one silver lining as a scientist is, in a sense, we're having a real dramatic natural experiment.
In our experiment, a dramatic increase in Pro content in the plants exposed to the highest NaCl concentration could contribute to the lack of notable change in photosynthetic efficiency.
