The typical city pub today is not a quiet, wood-paneled retreat in which witticisms are exchanged over a leisurely pint of Guinness, but instead an open space capable of accommodating hundreds of drinkers who must shout if they want to be heard over the piped rock music.
It's now working on a pair of its own rocket-powered launch vehicles, and is in the early phases of creating a reusable, crew-capable space plane.
Furthermore, probes would enable the surveying of non-intelligent populations, or those not yet capable of space navigation (like humans before the 20th century), as well as intelligent populations that might not wish to provide information about themselves and their planets to extraterrestrial civilizations.
Yet even as women quickly proved themselves capable of spacewalks, space repairs, space press conferences, not until July 1999 -- the 30th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's giant leap for "mankind" -- would a woman, Eileen Collins, at last serve as commander of a shuttle flight.
Most species that are capable of monopolizing space reproduce predominantly asexually.
But, the whole planet is a small island in the vast sea of space, capable of producing food for all as a consequence of rich biodiversity.
Pop music has long relied on a dream of being a utopian space, capable of bringing people of disparate backgrounds together.
Silva should be capable of finding space against a Liverpool side lacking a secure holding midfielder, while Fernandinho is a good bet for tracking the runs of left-back Alberto Moreno.
With the Knicks, he has the luxury of coaching two dynamic playmakers in Anthony and Smith, both of whom are capable of creating space for their shot when planned plays break down.
