Mathematicians and physicists, cut loose by the decline of the space program, gravitated to Wall Street and began devising ways to measure, price, and package risk.
But bolder still is Tomorrowland's sincere attempt to jump-start humanity's technological optimism, which it reckons stalled with the decline of the space race with potentially planet-threatening consequences.
By Ben McGrath At a conference of New Urbanist planners and theorists, in 2006, the architect Andrés Duany identified a budding crisis in American life: the decline of "male space," which he defined as zones "where the enthusiasms of Super Bowl day are unchecked year-round," and where "the men are not factually corrected when they exaggerate".
The decline of these spaces is so widespread that the accusation seems unfair.
As a result, invasive plants are deemed the second greatest environmental problem in the state, right behind the decline of open spaces.
A spokesman for the National Football Museum appeared to rule out any possibility of exhibiting the banner: "While we are always grateful for offers, we often have to decline for reasons of space and because it doesn't fit within our guidelines".
"We are offered objects on a regular basis and, while we are always grateful for these offers, we often have to decline for reasons of space and because it doesn't fit within our guidelines".
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Without strong and sustainable financial incentives to breed and raise New Jersey racehorses, the industry will die and the state will continue to witness the decline of open green space.
Tyson, currently the director of the Hayden Planetarium, leaps quickly from idea to idea: the decline of public interest in space and prospects for a reinvigorated space program, theories about heat death and cataclysmic end-days scenarios of an asteroid colliding with the earth, the relationship between science and religion.
