"When the International Space Station is finally launched,……" — Charles Platt
"When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense."
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18 Quotes by Charles Platt
Charles Platt has 18 quotes on this site.
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At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal…
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The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions,…
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Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of…
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The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.
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Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item…
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Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by…
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Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So…
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If low-temperature fusion does exist and can be perfected, power generation could be decentralized. Each home could heat itself and…
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Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode.…
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Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those…
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In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation…
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The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the…
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
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By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of…
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Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
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To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss…
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There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ...…
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It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact…
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The brain is biology's greatest challenge. Perhaps in a sense it is the greatest challenge for science as a whole,…
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The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is…
— Charles Lane Poor
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[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his…
— Augustus De Morgan
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For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in…
— Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
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[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and…
— Martin Heinrich Klaproth
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God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as…
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