4B • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THIS AND THAT
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2002
BIG MONDAYS
38 25 Mostly clear and warmer.
TOMORROW
TODAY
WEATHER FORECAST
52 32 Springlike.
WEDNESDAY
55 34 Still nice.
SOURCE: AMANDA FISCH http://chinook.phx.sukans.edu
LEWIS
Let us help you sleep well every night of the week.
BY THOMAS AND MOZLEY
...because you know you saved money. Thursdays in the Kansan and at kansan.com
Now showing The New iMac.
Apple will be showing the new iMac at the Kansas Union-Centennial Room Wednesday, March 6th Presentations at 10:00AM to 11:30AM and 1:00PM to 2:30PM Think Different.
The new iMac fits squarely at the center of your digital lifestyle. In fact, with Mac OS X and applications like iMovie 2, iDVD 2, iTunes 2 and iPhoto running on your new iMac you might even say that Apple helps make that lifestyle possible.
Show ponders life in outer space
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Is there life beyond Earth? A new computer-generated show at the American Museum of Natural History probes the question by taking viewers from the blackest depths of the ocean to the cosmos outside the Milky Way galaxy.
It's quite a ride. The journey unfolds on the domed ceiling of the circular theater, where images from seven huge projectors form sights like a panorama of the surface of Mars. It feels like you're riding some kind of magic whale that can rise with speed and grace from the deep ocean to slip through the clouds and soar through outer space.
The Search for Life: Are We Alone? replaces Passport to the Universe, which took more than 3 million viewers on a different cosmic voyage during its two-year run at the museum's Hayden Planetarium. The original show, narrated by Tom Hanks, may return later.
Harrison Ford takes over the narrating duties in the new 23- minute production, which the
museum developed with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The new show continues the idea of sweating the scientific details. The 25,000 stars it shows in the Milky Way galaxy are in the right spots; so are the 28,000 other galaxies it depicts. And when audience members watch cosmic clouds condense to form stars, they're seeing the results of mathematical simulations designed to understand that process.
For a lay audience of museumgoers, isn't this overkill?
"We're a scientific institution. Our goal is to educate. We want to actually show the science," replied Anthony Braun, executive producer for the museum's Rose Center for Earth and Space.
Quite properly, the show doesn't claim to answer the question of whether there's life in outer space, because scientists don't know. A lay person who has paid attention to the topic won't hear any startling insights here either. But the presentation does review key points that scientists are pondering.
The visit to the deep ocean, for
example, shows a perpetually dark environment where scalding hot water spurts from the bowels of Earth — and where some organisms thrive. "Life is tougher than we thought." Ford remarks.
The show also notes the fairly recent discoveries of dozens of planets outside the solar system, illustrating the idea that the universe contains plenty of places where life might spring up. "What are the odds that our planet is the only one with life?" Ford asks.
But Ford also notes that two favorite potential spots for life are much closer to home: Mars and Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Viewers check out Mars with a 360-degree image of its surface, courtesy of the 1997 Pathfinder mission.
For all its focus on the possibility of life beyond, the show's closing words remind viewers that there's work to be done at home, too.
"If we can learn to protect our only home in the cosmos and the life that it brought forth," Ford says, "just think of the new worlds, and ways of being alive, that we might discover."
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Spanish article
4 Trucker's truck
7 Nall. TV network
10 Play division
13 Past
14 A Gabor
15 Balderdash!
16 Fawkes or Lombardo
17 Eliminator
19 Frozen dessert
21 Turns sharply
22 "The Prince of Tides" star
24 Concerning
25 Marten's cousin
26 Salad green
27 Farthest within
29 Haggard novel
30 Ambiance
33 Org. of Pepper and Webb
37 Comprehend
38 Doodads
40 Ewe's mate
41 Door hardware
43 Mockingly
45 NASA outpost
47 Habitatus
48 Shell rival
51 Dance movement
52 Singer Diamond
55 "Money" group
57 Protuberance
58 Frisky
59 Royal reflexive pronoun
61 Fragrant neckwear
62 ETO chief
63 Operate
64 Barracks bed
65 Stray
66 Mack or Williams
67 Little bit
68 Gift for a kid
DOWN
1 Immature insect
2 Molding curves
3 Every now and then
4 Guns the engine
5 ___ been had!
6 Person with a paycheck attachment
$ \textcircled{c} $ 2002 Tribune Media Services, Inc All rights reserved.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54
55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68
03/04/02
7 Neck cramp
8 Beer choice
9 Foul odor
10 Nimble
11 Religious sects
12 Youngsters
18 Maine town
10 Edible mushroom
23 Moral fiber
25 Motorized bikes
23 NYC arena
29 Puts in stitches
30 Last of a log
31 Brewed drink
32 Called-off by a cloudburst
34 Choose in advance
35 Four qts.
36 Alcott woman
39 Knight's title
42 Finicky
44 Stopover on the way to Mercury
46 Underside of a beam
Solutions to Friday's crossword
48 Rome or
pippin
49 Track runner
50 Where lovers
walk?
51 Did some
cobbler's work
53 Icy abode
54 Southpaw
56 Appling of baseball
57 Engendered
60 New World country: abb
1
1