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Broca's Brain: The Romance of ScienceIn studies of the climate of an entire planet, however, experiments are expensive and difficult to perform, and have potentially awkward social consequences. By the greatest good fortune, nature has come to our aid by providing us with nearby planets with significantly different climates and significantly different physical variables. Perhaps the sharpest test of theories of climatology is that they be able to explain the climates of all the nearby planets, Earth, Mars and Venus. Insights gained from the study of one planet will inevitably aid the study of the others. Comparative planetary climatology appears to be a discipline, just in the process of birth, with major intellectual interest and practical applications. CHAPTER 15 KALLIOPE AND THE KAABA We imagine them flitting cheek to jowl, these driftrocks of cosmic ash thousandfold afloat between Jupiter and Mars. Frigga, Fanny, Adelheid Lacrimosa. Names to conjure with, Dakotan black hills, a light-opera staged on a barrier reef. And swarm they may have, crumbly as blue-cheese, that ur-moment when the solar system broke wind ...» |
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