A worthy scientific objective?
"Akeley elevated taxidermy to a scientific, objective form," said Mr. Quinn.
The scientific objective of geodesy is to determine the size and shape of the Earth.
What makes a comfortable chair is not a scientific, objective description, like the best restaurant criticism.
The search for evidence of Martian water, past or present, is the main scientific objective of current exploration of the planet.
But it turns out that the lower limits of life are still a biological mystery and their elucidation has only recently become a popular scientific objective.
Pretending that it has a scientific objective of any significance is an insult to those aspects of NASA, including the Great Observatory programs, and the new rover landings, that promise real science.
Doctor Who has lived and died by its companions, perhaps more so than the lead actor; as our highly scientific, objective overview of the best and worst should prove.
Although it does have a scientific objective (a close encounter with an asteroid called 1992 KD is planned for July 1999), the mission's primary goal is to test equipment that might be incorporated into the flight systems of future spacecraft.
The scientific objective is to study field-aligned currents in the auroral oval and the electrojet of the equatorial ionosphere.
The scientific objective of the mission is to explore the lunar interior using seismometry and heat-flow measurements.
