Meanwhile, in the process of watching for a nuclear detonation, the detection system's sensors — designed to observe visible light, high-frequency radio waves, X-rays, gamma rays and other data that might point to a nuclear explosion — stream an amazing array of data on powerful lightning strikes, space hazards like meteoroids and man-made debris and severe solar and space weather events.
The festival opens with Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, an existential sci-fi thriller that features George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as imperilled astronauts aboard a stricken space shuttle.
Another $50 million would go to fixing NASA facilities damaged during a series of ferocious hurricanes which struck space agency centers in the last 2 years.
These splendid creatures have numerous status markers besides their back hair: they are bigger than the rest of their band, strike space-filling postures, produce deeper sounds, thump their chests lustily and, in general, exude an air of physical fitness.
Here, to a Duke Ellington score, Ailey's sheer professional skill is evident, with changes of idiom, striking stage spacing, marvelously textured coordination of upper and lower body.
Scores of buildings have been flattened by air strikes, the space between each floor condensed into single layers of dust.
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What Wednesday's successful strike in space conclusively proved was not infallibility but a robust and flexible military capability that can be cited by either side in what no doubt will be the ensuing debate.
1954 A fragment of meteorite bursts through the roof of Elizabeth Hodges' home in Alabama and hits her on the hip, briefly hospitalising her – the only confirmed case of a human struck by space rock.
Calamity struck Russian space science several years later, when the Mars 96 spacecraft exploded shortly after launch.
We must typo and wait for the inexorable, dust-based doom to strike the space bar or the 'E' key — which will then make the typing experience even more miserable (and require a trip to an Apple store to swaddle the misbehaving keys in rubber — leaving us computerless, most probably, in the meanwhile).
