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4 31 First Word Mars Face By Paul Levinson By Robert C, Kiviat Sensoria Are the mysterious formations Communications in the Cydonia 8 region of Mars natural Funds or a sign of By Linda Marsa intelligent intervention? Investing 38 in cyberspace The Resuscitator 10 By Janet Stites Electronic Universe Although we may try By Gregg Keizer to live by

12 our hearts, it's the Mind brain that will By Steve Nadis get us walking out the If is one colonize Mars, will the The phantasmic humankind to day we be hospital doors. first? Or do the monuments on Mars' surface realm Brain resuscitation is a prior civilization? art Pat Rawiings/ of sleep disorders suggest Cover by around the bend. 14 SAIC for NASA, (Additional credits, page 76,) 43 Medicine Cosmic Conspiracy: By Nina L. Diamond Six Decades 16 of Government UFO Virtual Realities Cover-ups, Part V By Tom Dworetzky By Dennis Stacy and 18 Patrick Huyghe Earth) 54 By W. Bradford Swift Pictorial: Tobacco Beauty and ttie Beast the miracle plant By Robert Bixby 20 60 Space Fiction: By Brenda Forman See Rock City Enter Tonga, By Allen Steele 23 67 Continuum Interview 88 By Nina L, Diamond Games 71 By Scot Morris Antimatter

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PICKING RIPE: There are just some things you can't do in cyberspace

By Paul Levinson

radio flourishes in an age of 0'^ f% y grandmother had a fruit sight-and-sound TV, whereas I 1 1 I ''sP'-il^s'^iori as a I %m I squeezer among the sight-only silent movies fell by bustling stalls off Pelham Park- the wayside once talkies came hearing- , way in the Bronx. "Mrs. Hoff," along. Why? Because they'd see her coming, "we've without-seeing is a mode literally got some great cantaloupes for hardwired into our specieshood: you." And they'd hand her one, We have eyelids not earlids, the which she'd hold up to the light, world grows dark every night but "Some of us divine in some indefinable way not necessarily silent, and so on.

still get and either accept or reject re- Thus radio, in tapping into an al- a kick out of gardless of the hype from the ready-profound human mode of actually fruit store. And she'd do the communication, survived; silent hanifling video same for every carrot and head movies did not. "' cantaloupes, of lettuce she bought. Still photography survived the hefting tlie boxes, In-person presence—the full advent of motion pictures be- and read- interplay of every relevant sense cause stillness is a fundamental ing the blurbs." in the sensorium—was the only part of human perception: black way of interacting with reality for and white photography, on the my grandmother. At least insofar only be experienced in the flesh. other hand, is no longer used ex- as fruit and vegetables were A dinner at a fine restaurant, with cept as a deliberate artistic concerned, (She did, however, its nch mixture of tastes, smells, statement, because we see in read the newspapers.) sights, and sounds—a walk on a color. In activities in which surro- The twentieth century can be moonlit beach in August, soft gacy satisfies the already-.ores-

regarded as an age of increas- sand and sanalogue. The hottest ent patterns of our species, it will ing surrogacy in our relations chats on the fastest networks likely not only survive but sup- with the outside world. We hold not a candle to the restau- plant some in-person n^odes. started a hundred years ago with rant and the beach. Some parts The lowly amoeba has '"o capac-

a shift from live theatrical perfor- of our lives, I think we can safely ity for vicarious perception or in-

mances to movies on the screen. say, will always be conducted teraction— all it knows of its world

IVIidway through the century, with best result offline. is what it physically bumps into

more and more people started In-person environments still and dies the instant it comes to

watching movies at home on little provide a dimension of choice. know something noxious. TV screens rather than going out Since the digital world is deliber- Evolution has given more

to public theaters. I^ecentiy ately constructed, it is inevitably complex organises better buf- we've acquired the option of or- prepackaged, and prepackag- fers to help the'" "avigate the dering mpvies for our TV screen ing limits options in its early world^percep:::" in animals, via pay-for-view—eliminating the phases. Ultimately the reach of ideas and technologies in hu- quick trip to the video store. purely informational access will mans— and these allow us the All tliis, of course, pales in offer options undreamed of in the safety, the dignity in some cases, vicariousness to the precincts of old-fashioned store, but at pres- of knowing things without the nsk

VR and cyberspace, where not ent I have a far greater selection of our physical commftment. The only our interactions, but the very of tapes in the video store than vicariousness of our newest

stuff of our choices is an informa- via pay-for-view. My grandmother media thus has a deep-rooted tional construct, a digital concoc- had far greater choice of can- evolutionary imprimatur. tion through and through. taloupes in the fruit store than But in human activities in What residue of fruit-handling had she bought one from a mail- which only Otg real thing will do, will be left in the twenty-first cen- order catalog. Indeed, in the fruit in which the oa!l of the amoeba

tury? Is the yearning that people store she could forego the fruit is still eminently felt, we can ex-

feel for in-person presence a altogether if it didn't pass her pect the spirit of my grand- nostalgia akin to the preference tactile muster. mother to prevail into the for typewriters and ink pens? The best guide to the likely twenty-firs": century and well be- Not likely—certainly not for survival of modes of communica- yond. Hef Ling the cantaloupe still some aspects of life which can tion is media history: Sound-only has its appeai-CX] cannanumicAToms

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BUYING THE FUTURE: An investor's map of the digital superliigliway

By Linda IVIarsa

The collapse of the $33 money," says Denise Jevne, a architecture of the highway billion Bell Atlantic-TCI vice president and portfolio man- But both technologies will re- merger was a jolt of re- ager for T. Rowe Price in San quire "a computer chip which ality for the overhyped interac- Francisco. Companies like Ameri- can compress volumes of digital- tive media revolution, where the tech and Pacific Telesis, which ized information and deliver au- prevailing attitude seemed to be avoided cable alliances and in- dio, video, and color to a screen

"If we build it, consumers will stead spent billions to add video in your home," says IVlichael Mur- come." Now skeptical analysts capability to their phone sys- phy editor of the California Tech- are asking the tough questions. tems, now/ look smart. Other nology Stocl< Letter. "So one way How will this information be de- Baby Bells may gobble up the to play this is to focus on semi- livered? Through a television? A smaller cable franchises. conductor makers." computer? A telephone? More to Hedge your bets by investing Leading innovators here are the point, do consumers want all in technologies that will be Intel, Tl, Cirrus Logic, C-Cube these services? And how much needed no matter what becomes Microsystems, and Silicon are they willing to pay for them? the scaffolding of the superhigh- Graphics, which has devised a In this world of uncer- red uoed-inst ruction-set Plan your route tainty where trends computing (RISC) chip wiUl care change frequently invest- that is designed to work when investing ing can be treacherous, in a converter box and a in the data So why take chances? home computer. superhighway. The answer is that tele- Other top performers it may lie a communications is one of will be the companies bumpy road until the few growth sectors of that can make this com- it's finiSiied. the economy Even mere plex and difficult technol- mortals can make money ogy simple for a nation

if they can analyze the that still can't program a terrain and identify which VCR, That's why Michael firms will flourish. This Murphy touts Apple, the month, we'll focus on the industry's trailblazer in infrastructure of the su- user friendliness, and perhighway Next month, First Person, a subsidiary we'll handicap what will of Sun Microsystems; be beamed into the na- both are devising soft- tion's living rooms and ware to help consumers the key players in this navigate through the digital derby electronic maze and set Right now, one thing is up toil booths at check- certain: blanketing the points. "These two com- nation with the equipment way For example, you'll need a panies are focused on the real needed to deliver a wide assort- hardvi/are device to turn your problem—how to get people to ment of interactive services will home Into a terminal for the su- use this stuff and how to get require a staggering hardware perhighway Some are betting them to pay" says Murphy. buildup, roughly equal to the the off-ramp will be the set-top Despite the prospect of spec- cost of constructing the inter- box, an upgraded version of the tacular financial gains, investors state highway system. Thus, the soon-to-be-outdated cable con- need to be nimble. "The industry ability to raise capital will deter- verters that sit on top of the TV is very dynamic and volatile be-

mine which industry—cable or sets of the nation's 60 million cause it is driven by invention," telephone—will lay the pipeline. cable subscribers. Others be- cautions Edward Silver, a Los An- Cable companies are strain- lieve the highway gateways will geles investment advisor spe- ing under a huge debt load and be phone lines linked to personal cializing in technology and were recently hit with a rate roll- computers outfitted with semi- communications. "You can do back by the FCC. Consequently, conductors that can handle mul- your homework and still be

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GAMING'S FINAL FRONTIER: Interactively going where none have gone before

By Gregg Keizer

I ome of us are simply (the onscreen characters re- plays a bit like a maze game.

i adrift in space. Star mind me of cartoon voodoo Unusual for a cartridge game,

' Trek: The Next Gener- dolls, believe it or not), but Futures Past requires some atior] has retreated into per- the play's the thing here. analytical skills to solve its petual reruns, its cast and Devotees of the 1960s Star adventures. Sega plans to roll props heading for a bigger Trek won't be disappointed. this one to the Genesis screen, bigger paychecl

same game that beamed Trek- and if you do, you can choose for AH Seasons, an interactive kers to the PC a couple of from two difficulty levels), and adventure for the hot but years back, but once you stick the graphics look a bit snap- pricey 3D0 system. Every- pier. "Though^This Be Mad- thing and everybody is ren- Games based ness" was my favorite of the dered in computer-created

mStapTmkdtB octet, for it seemed to have a 3-D images, and though that pouring nm bit of everything that made gives Picard, Data, and the Hie shelves mi Star Trek so grand: Klingons, other TV stars a bit of a man- burying us a bit of killing, and a com- nequin look, the backgrounds like Ti-ibbles fall- puter gone bad. Just as much are stunning. And with the ing irom an fun as watching the reruns. 3D0's ability to move graph-

overhead Itin. Spectrum HoloByte (an- ics on the screen, expect fast other of the Trek game mak- and smooth animation, ers) has the Next Generation Paramount (the studio be-

license and puts it to good hind the Star Trek pantheon of (not great) use in Star Trek: TV shows and movies) gets The Next Generation, Futures into the act, too. Its CD-ROM Past, a title for the Super Nin- Star Trek interactive Teciinicai tendo videogame deck. This ivlanuai: Enterprise D, which blend of adventure, puzzle, should be out this fad, opens and shoot-'em-up is a bit up the ship like a tin can, more cohesive on the plot showing you its systems, sub- the CD in the drive, you'll hear side, for you're trying to lo- systems, and floor plans in a big difference. Voice-overs cate a weapon of powerful exquisite detail on the PC and by the original cast (and by proportions, the Derandom- Macintosh. And an upcoming some literally faceless extras) jzer (where do they get these game, Star Trek, Deep Space transform this game into a names?) before the Romulans Nine: Tlie l-lunt, features the blast from the past. Shatner, and another alien species, the lineup's newest show in a you- Nimoy, Kelley (Bones), Doo- Chodak, wrap their hands are-there adventure fashion.

han (Scotty), Nichols (Uhura), around it. A multimission game. Star Trek has been around and others speak the parts in Futures Past lets you run the for nearly three decades and, this "talkie-" Fairly true to the Enterprise D from the bridge, thanks to digital technology, original series, 25th Anniver- then lead an away team on the series looks to remain fa- sary has you beaming down the ground. In space, there's miliar ground for a long, long

for seven small adventures enough phaser fire to satisfy time in the future. All I can

tiny TV episodes if you will. even the most rabid battle fan, say is, ''Make it so." And make

The graphics show their age while the away team action it snappy.DO nniruD

THE MAN WHO FOUGHT WITH SQUIRRELS IN HIS SLEEP: Odd things happen when the dreamer is awake (and vice versa) By Steve Nadis

neurology, the physician is brought on by excitement or monitoring brain waves and eye Inoften presented with an array heightened emotion. The and muscle movements can of baffling sympfoms. What, for episodes, which can last a few document this blending of states. instance, would you make of the seconds to several minutes, may In the extreme case of status husband who employs a ham- induce temporary paralysis or dissociatus, Mahowald and merlock on his wife while he's even collapse. The phenomenon Schenck's patients simultane- fast asleep? Or the guy who occurs, Mahowald suggests, ously display elements of all enters a trance while driving and when the paralysis associated three states. "When you watch

snaps out of it wondering where with REM sleep suddenly them on videotape, they appear he is and how he got there? And intrudes into waking hours. to be asleep, yet polygraphs what oould this have to do with "IF REM-sleep paralysis can show none of the conventional Doberman pinschers who sleep characteristics,"

ill many get so excited upon eat- Mahowald says. cases, brain ing their favorite foods These "impaired state scientists that they collapse head boundaries" play a role in cannot figure cut first into their bowls? narcolepsy, notes Uni- how the These bizarre occur- versity of Michigan neu- mind works until rences are common to rologist Michael Aldrlch. something people (and dogs) afflict- "But that's not proof.!' To goes wrong, sucEi ed with narcolepsy, a pinpoint the disorder's as the man syndrome also oharaoter- origins may require ani- who wakes up ized by daytime sleepi- mal models. Neurosoi- in bed para- ness. The diagnosis, entist Jerry Siegel at lyzed and sees however, does not ex- UCLA is investigating a demons. plain the phenomenon, group of neurons in the and the precise causes of medial medulla of the rat narcolepsy are unknown, brainstem, just above the Mark Mahowald and spinal cord. "If that region Carlos Schenck—^neurol- is deactivated," Siegel ogist and psychiatrist, says, "You don't get the respectively, at the Min- normal suppression of nesota Regional Sleep muscle tone in REM Disorders Center in Min- sleep." When narcoleptic neapolis—offer an expla- dogs get excited, he nation. There are three observed, neurons in this basic states of being: awake- occur during wakefulness, why area start flhng, perhaps trigger- rapid-eye-movement sleep, and can't we dream while we're ing cataplexy. non-REM sleep. Strange things awake?'' he asks. Some nar- Siegel is now studying the happen when these states inad- coleptics do, especially during neural systems that feed into the vertently commingle. transitions between wake and medulla, including cells emanat- REM behavior disorder (RED) sleep. A man visited by a "night ing from the pons, located higher causes some people to act out hag" continued to dream after up in the brain stem. The pons is their dreams. Most of us can't waking up— an example of a known to be involved in regulat- move while we dream because hypnopompic hallucination. ing REM sleep. "We're trying to our muscles are actively para- Others start dreaming before follow the chain back to a gene

lyzed. People with RBD show all they're fully asleep, leading to that produces a structural defect the normal signs of dream sleep hypnagogic hallucinations. Out- in the brain," he says. except the loss of muscle tone. of-body experiences may repre- Yet, there's hope. "Most And this leads to odd behavior, sent yet another form of "wakeful patients come to us with a psy- such as the slumbering wrestler dreaming." And the converse, chiatric diagnosis," Mahowald or another man who fought sguir- lucid dreaming, occurs when says. 'The overwhelming majori-

rels in his sleep. At the other end consciousness mixes with the ty of them are not mentally ill, of the symptomatic spectrum is dream state. and the sleep disorders they suf- cataplexy, periods of weakness Sleep polygraph devices fer from are largely treatable. "CXD — —

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ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET: A new way to fight depression

By Nina L. Diamond

I Derates tried to explain it stance, laden with proteins that Eldepryl can target only the

i to the Greeks, Ovid to contain the amino acid phenyl- offending MAO enzyme and neu- ' the Romans, Shake- alanine. When triggered by emo- tralize its ability to break down speare to the English, Cervantes tional responses—and cur bod- PEA. The compound can thus to the Spanish, and Goethe to ies are constantly registering our slow down metabolic degenera-

is con- tion of allow a healthy the Germans. It is the subject of emotions—phenylalanine PEA and poetry and the stuff of tragedy. verted into a neurohormone accumulation of the chemical to Love and loss have inspired PEA—and spread throughout the soothe our aching hearts. So far great thinkers and fruitfui art body, with the highest concen- the Eldepryl compound seems to throughout human history. trations found in the brain. be working, In the Spring 1994 Today, however, they are inspir- The function of PEA is to mon- issue of the Journal of Neuropsy- ing good science. itor our emotional responses. chiatry, a report of a study con- Researchers have isolated a High concentrations of PEA ducted in Buenos Aires claimed neurohormone caiied PEA, an might produce euphoria or ele- that six out of eight people given amphetamineiike substance in vation^a love high of sorts. a PEA compound got well within our bodies, which regu- two weeks. The effect What happeEis lates our highs and lows. was immediate, the de- when we PEA is not the latest in pression lifted. fall in love may designer drugs, but a Sabelli has duplicat- he what new way to treat reactive ed the study in the United happens when depression, or the short- States and has come up we fall out. term drop in energy and with similar results High levels of interest that usually fol- about an 80 percent re- PEA may lows death or loss. covery rate. "Most anti- send us to cloud Dr. Hector Sabelli, depressants take two to nine, hut director of the Psycho- three weeks just to begin

too little, and biology Research Labo- acting," says Sabelli, we are ratory at Rush University adding that the PEA re- singing the blues. is currently conducting placement for depression FDA field trials for a PEA has thus far produced replacement, which he dfamatio results. hopes will be an effec- In addition to the tive treatment for reac- ob^/ious benefits of PEA tive depression. replacement over, say, "There are many the blood-letting of the causes of depression," sixteenth century or the Sabelli explains, "and a natcotic sedatives of the PEA deficiency is one Fifties and Sixties, it that is very important. Just as Lower concentrations of PEA, looks like PEA replacement is diabetes can be treated with below normal levels, may bring both nontoxic and nonaddictive. insulin, PEA deficiency can be on depression or moodiness. "A major component of addic- treated with a PEA replacement." There is a problem: MAO- tion," Sabelli explains, "is toler- In previous studies, Sabelli found Type B, a common intestinal ance. And we have discovered that 60 percent of people with enzyme, quickly breaks down in animals that as PEA is admin-

major depression and 100 per- the structure of PEA before it can istered the animals need less, cent of people with reactive have much lasting effect- Eating not more." depression fiave low levels of chocolate, for example, will do There are depressive states

PEA, and 60 percent of those little to take the edge off a PEA which require more than a chem- treated with a PEA compound deficiency. The question, then, ical tune-up. PEA replacements are relieved of their depression becomes how to stabilize PEA. may soon be able to offer us a very quickly. Using a compound substance safe and healthy alternative to How does PEA work? composed of PEA and the non- cope with life's ups and downs,

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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Raskoinikov does MUD time By Tom Dworetzky

wasn't exactly with baited "Count on good intentions behind his battered desk.

Itbreatli that this reporter ac- and people will always let you "Good of you to come. 1 am cepted some-time source and down. But weaknesses are made investigating the slaying of the full-time police captain Waldo's of steel. Play to those and we old pawnbroker in your building.

invitation to meet in the lobby of can keep perps fully immersed You knew her?"

the virtual justice facility at One for hours, days . . . their whole "She was a shitbag, stole

Wilshire—^the physical location of lives. The MUD's a virtual prison, what I put in hock. She was a

the massive crime com. server. "I and they don't even know it." placemark in the book of life."

wanted you to see this," he says "Who's that guy?" I ask. "Many unfortunates live in as we enter the glass-walled of- Waldo then keys us into a your area," fice packed with terminals. On scene that reeks of desperation, "Hey," says the perp, "I was

each screen is the present state poverty, and the bubbling finishing university when I caught of play in a variety of IVIUDs samovars of old czarist Russia in some bad luck,"

multiuser dungeons. They're like winter. From behind the perp's "Of course. It couldn't have nothing I'd seen before. People eyes we move through this total been much of a man to kill the in these animated virtual worlds immersion scenario: Before us is old woman, though, A weak, ," are killing each other, thieving, the entrance to a decrepit build- cowardly thing , , whoring — all the wicked things ing in a tawdry neighborhood. "He might have had reasons," people do. We feel our hand reach out and the perp smiles a smile that says Says Waldo, "Welcome to the take the door handle; our feet I'm toying with you, feeb.

Multiuser brave new full-immersion world softly climb the tilted stairs cov- "Waldo," I ask. "What the hell dungeons in of Gangsta-MUDs where we ered by threadbare, once-red is going on?" VR justice keep an eye on the crumbs." carpet. Down a yellowing, dimly "Total immersion, I'm not even

facilities couid "But Waldo," I say 'Aren't you lit hallway we stop at a shabby in the office with him. He thinks tal(e the supposed to stop these things?" apartment- The door of the flop he's doing what he's doing, but tedium out ot "Yeah," says Waldo, "Watch slowly opens and frightened old he's just following a script. We've doing this." He taps something on the eyes stare out of a crinkled face got some pretty good ones and hard time—just keyboard. A bunch of the mud- surrounded by darkness. "What are getting more each day" climb into ders get a message flashed, want?" she calls feebly "So they're just running on a

a datasuit and "Nice kill. You win a $200 bonus, The chain snaps like glass, treadmill in their heads?" cummil ain for double or nothing?" the door flies open, and the perp "Beats having 'em on the

more crimes. rist, you reward them?" is in there whacking her on the streets. That old lady's fine, by head with an ax, the way What we paid her for her

"Ghastly," I say role went to her grandkid's col- "Old lady's a pawnbroker; guy lege fund," thinks he's a superman or some- "So you punish perps for thing. Only he's broke, so he fig- crimes like these, that they think ures he's above the law. Whack they did but just imagined?" an old lady; she's nothing and he "Virtual punishments that fit deserves her money," Waldo their virtual crimes. They imagine fast-forwards to show the guy they get caught, imagine they're later in the day^feeling good, in jail. As good as the real thing proud of what he did, walking and a hell of a lot cheaper."

the street in new threads, fool- "Why tell me?" ishly tossing away the puny "We need new scripts to keep stash he got from the old lady virtual crime more entertaining

like it would last forever And he than real crime. Wouldn't want

seems to want to talk about it. perps to leave their terminals Next Waldo cuts a day ahead. and start whacking real people The perp shows up at tlie lobby on the real streets. Besides this, of One Wilshire and comes to we have a community service Waldo's office upstairs, "You program for white-collar crimi-

wanted to see me," the perp tells nals, and 1 was checking your

Waldo, sitting there big as life tax return the other day . , ,"Da — EAFTTH

HIGH-TECH TOBACCO: Finding new uses for an old plant

By W. Bradford Swift, D.V.M.

the past fifteen years, The tobacco mosaic virus is ForRaymond Long has genetically altered to carry the been searching among gene for a particular protein's the tobacco fields of North Car- production into the tobacco olina for something to eat—or plant. The protein may be an rather for a source of protein that alien protein, like trichosanthin, a could be used as an additive in drug better known as "com- many of the foods we do eat. pound Q", the AIDS therapeutic Scientists have long known compound, or a protein such as that tobacco was a source of alpha amylase, an enzyme used protein. During the Forties, for in- by food processors and normally Tobacco fields may stance, Norman Pirie, of Eng- produced by the tobacco plant, well become land, studied the plant as a food but in small quantities. In only a a competitive and source that would help alleviate few weeks, the plant will manu- viable source wartime food shortages. Then in facture proteins for the first time of protein produc- the Seventies, Samuel Wildman, in the case of alien proteins, or in tion ttianKs a biology professor at UCLA, dis- a higher concentration for pro- 10 biotechnology. covered a way to easily extract teins indigenous to tobacco. and crystallize tobacco's Frac- Through this method, the to- tion-1 protein. Fraction-1 has There was a lack of interest and, bacco plant is able to produce ideal properties for a food addi- consequently, funding to carry trichosanthin at levels as high as

tive; it's colorless, odorless, and on the effort at that time." 2 percent of the total protein, a tasteless. Also, its nutritional But in 1990, a new technology concentration approximately 200 value is greater than the milk developed by Biosource Genet- times higher than found in its nat- protein casein—^the standard by ics Corporation of Vacaville, Cali- ural source. which the nutritional value of fornia, opened new possibilities, Long suggests that re- other proteins is measured. "The advent of biotechnology searchers should concentrate on

Since Fraction-1 is found in all has changed everything," Long finding uses for the plant once green plants, the question re- explains. "Coupling two ideas the proteins are removed. In ad- mains, why tobacco? Why not proteins derived through bio- dition to the extract materials that grow alfalfa or soybeans which technology along with Fraction-1 may be used not only in food, also contain high concentrations production for food uses ap- but in pharmaceuticals and drink of Fraction-1? According to pears to make a very nice, eco- products as well, the fibrous Long, who is a professor of crop nomically viable project." plant residue could be fer- science at North Carolina State The new technology capital- mented into alcohols or other sol- University and has worked as a izes on the unique properties of vents, or converted into a plant physiologist or chemist and a common plant invader, the to- supplemental fiber similar to

more recently as bioprocess en- bacco mosaic virus (TMV). Larry wheat bran. If Long is right about gineer, tobacco produces a Grill, vice president of research the commercial viability and ver- tremendous amount of biomass and development at Biosource, satility of tobacco, we may all be j in a single season which, when points out that in its native state, eating it soon.DQ combined with the high concen- the introduction of TM'V into a tration of Fraction-1 (30 percent tobacco plant causes the plant of the total protein) in the plant, to produce viral-encoded pro- results in a relatively high pro- teins that can be as high as duction of edible protein. ten percent of its own The problem was that to- proteins. "The phenomenal part

bacco protein was simply not is that it can happen m two cost competitive with other weeks," says Grill sources such as milk and eggs. In 1987, Long terminated his field research of ten years. "We folded because the economics appeared marginal, at best. CHUTZPAH IN ORBIT: Meet the new power in the telecommunications world—Tonga By Brenda Forman

I he kingdom of Tonga satellite appears stationary. and it lacks any way to enforce {population 180,000) is These geostationary satellites compliance with its decisions. a teensy island out in carry our international television This arrangement worked just the nether reaches of tiie south- hookups, telephone communica- fine so long as the game was western Pacific Ocean, roughly tions, and data transmissions. small and the players limited. in the vicinity of American Wonderfully sophisticated Enter Tonga. The kingdom un- Samoa. Nice weather. No partic- ways have been developed over dertook this merry venture into ular economy to speal< of. Hardly the years to scrunch a maximum the stolid world of telecommuni- what you'd call a telecommuni- number of birds into geostation- cations under the guidance of oations giant. ary orbit (GEO), but the fact re- one Matt Nilson, a splendidly col- But in 1988, the sovereign mains that the space available is orful character in what is other- kingdom of Tonga registered with finite. GEO slots have thereby wise a fairly gray and staid the International Telecommunica- become very hot items. The 16 industry. A veteran of interna-

tions Union (ITU) its intent to oc- slots Tonga claimed were the last tional telecommunications, Nil- cupy the stupefying total of 16 unoccupied ones in the arc, son perceived that someone geostationary orbital slots which meant that anyone want- could make serious money by ing to put a new geostationary sewing up those slots. He satellite there had to come talk proved, of course, perfectly right.

Hoai*eit The to . - . Tonga! Assuming, of Tongasat subsequently pared tiny kingdom of course, that they could find it. down its original filing from 16 Tonga threw Several of the ITU's other 180 slots to a current total of 7, still a the mternationaf members promptly reacted with pretty impressive number, a ges- telecommu- howls of protest, demands that ture that failed to mollify the of- nications worid the ITU ignore or invalidate the fended parties. But I'affaire into a frenzy filing, and threats to move rival Tongasat turns out to be only the when it snapped satellites into the contested slots tip of a much larger—and poten- up ail of the in defiance of Tonga, the ITU, or tially much nastier—iceberg, The remaining slots anyone else. Why all the fuss whole process of GEO slot allo- for geosta- over some space in the sky? cation, in fact, shows every sign tionary satelHIes. Money— lots and lots of money. of turning into a free-for-all, and a The International telecommunica- genuine little frontier war may be

tions market is big and growing brewing up at GEO. For exam- almost exponentially and the Pa- ple, the United Kingdom, Thai- cific Rim outstrips the rest of that land, China, and Russia are exploding market in growth. arguing heatedly over which one Moreover, that market revolves gets to put its bird at 99°-10rE. stretching across most of the Pa- around satellite communica- Indonesia's Palapa B1 and Rim- cific. The ensuing uproar shows tions—specifically geostationary sat's Gorizont 17 only recently no signs of dying down. satellite communications. agreed to share the same slots Tonga may be tiny, but size The ITU certainly didn't frame at 134°E after a dispute that ain't everything. Instead, as its procedures with the cutthroat seemed likely to escalate into an

every business will tell you, it's competitiveness of the modern almost physical shoving match. location that counts. And Tonga telecommunications marketplace Two PanAmSat birds and Papua

sits right smack underneath in mind; it didn't have to. Until re- New Guinea's Pacstar are each some of the juiciest real estate cent years, few nations aside rushing to occupy the portion of around. The skies over Tonga from the United States, the for- the arc between 166°E and

represent the last unoccupied mer Soviet Union, and some of 168°E^and so it goes. stretch of the geostationary or- the European countries had ei- The shot fired by tiny Tonga bital arc —that very special ther the capability or the need to has sparked what may well be- place, 22,300 miles above the launch sophisticated communi- come a full-scale shootout be- equator, where an orbiting satel- cations satellites. As a result, the tween the big guns for elbow lite's forward speed equals the ITU's procedures depend en- room above the equator, and it's earth's rotational velocity so that tirely on gentlemanly negotiation, anyone's guess who will be left from the earth's surface, the compromise, and consensus. standing at the end. DO cDfUTimuunn FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: Yesterday's discards are tomorrow's fashionable wares. Plus, searching for a sea creature, and dentists aim lasers at teeth

Finding new uses for old culinary chimes made out of boxes tilings may seem odd in a silverware and made consumer culture in iove from driftwood. artistry at witti disposable products. But the But at Felissimo, a retail Felissimo is not just limited for sale. store in Manhattan, recy- to the goods cling has become truly the Clodagh, a minimalist de- art of necessity. signer from Ireland well Owned by the Yazaki known for her earthy and family of Japan, this store elemental interiors, incorpo- historic baroque believes in keeping in tune rated the witln the environment and and rococo architectural offers a comfortable retail details of the building in space meant to be a retreat transforming the former from the noise and excesses office space into a bou- of Manhattan. As Rona Felissimo wants customers to relax and tique. The primary color Tison, the store's executive make themselves feel at home. palette is a combination of textured materi- vice president, explains it, layered and "We offer a completely different shopping experience, als stained with ocher, terra cotta, and sand tones. of one that stimulates all the senses. It's a soothing sanctu- Clodagh restored a sweeping spiral staircase made wrought-iron railing that ary" Tison adds that it is unique to find the "same intima- marble and elaborately detailed of the first cy and tranquility in other stores in Manhattan," crosses the entire building from the west side fourth, creating an elegant Set up like the elegant home it once was, Felissimo floor to the east side of the features a garden room, a living room, a bedroom, and rotunda on the second floor. For added drama, there is other spaces that offer goods appropriate to the particu- an etched-glass floor on the third story, enabling one to lar area that houses them. You can buy everything from see through to the space below. did with jewelry to furniture, and while it doesn't have a thrift-shop A/lore remarkable, perhaps, is what Clodagh sign announcing "Everything You See for Sale," you can the exposed heating vents left over from the building's buy just about anything from the lighting fixtures to the previous incarnation as drab office space: She did noth- grand chandelier. But what makes this merchandise dif- ing. In keeping with the -vision that "natural is better," ferent—in a city already overcrowded with stuff and more Clodagh left the vents right out in the open for all to see.

if craftsman's stuff to buy— is that most of the items are constructed out Another touch is the paint job— a brush of materials that would probably otherwise take up space went a little off course, the mistake went uncorrected. in a junkyard. Not that you'd notice. The store is meticulously crafted Which doesn't mean the stuff is junky. As more and throughout, a testament to Clodagh's mastery of incorpo- more stores offer natural products, Felissimo hopes its rating what already exists into a cutting-edge retail space fashionable wares will play a leading role in changing the that forsakes excess in favor of simplicity—with a nod image of environmentally sound goods, "In the past, 'eco' toward conservation as well. "Felissimo adored some lighting, on the was considered very bland, a lot of browns and beiges," experiments 1 did with optic cutting down says Tison. But not here, where ecoproducts are neither wattage," she says. Motion sensors, for example, in the drab nor cheap. You can spoil yourself by spending bathrooms and fitting rooms save additional energy. $5,000 on a pair of chairs made from fallen cher'-y trees Incorporating such environmental concerns "is new for all or $1,500 on a lamp made from a bicycle chain and of us," Clodagh says. "A great deal of education needs to scrap metal. take place. There's a lot of waste that goes on here in Why so pricey? Well, because it's art, says Sophia New York." Amaro, a spokeswoman for Felissimo. "Each piece is Waste is everywhere, but Felissimo hopes its model materials will emulated created by an artist and it simply costs more. However, for intelligent use of space and be what you get for that price, you can never find anywhere by others, leading to a world where nothing is discarded else." There are less expensive items for sale, such as and art is everywhere.—PETfH CALLAHAN "

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TASTER'S CHOICE

Does alcohol taste bitter to you? Do sugary treats seem too sweet? According to Yale School of Medicine pro- fessor of surgery and epi- demiology Linda Bartoshuk, you could be a super- taster—genetically pro- grammed with up to 70 times as many taste buds as other people. Bartoshuk reached this conclusion after giving hundreds of research subjects a diluted solution of the thyroid medication 6-N-propylthiouracil. Twenty- five percent perceived the solution as intensely bit- ter, classifying them as supertasters, while 50 per- cent found the drink only slightly bitter, landing them

squarely in the ranks of medium tasters. The remain- ing 25 percent thought

In your golden years, you might discover ttiat your epicurean cravings are satisfied not by stronger or it tasted like water, making spicier flavorings, but rather by brighter, more colorful foods. them nontasters.

DELICIOUS COLOR and people over 60 years More vivid food color

of age drank the same cherry- could play role in a key THE HAWKMOTH'S Brighter-colored food, flavored beverage. maintaining proper nutrition TONGUE IS THE LONGEST not spicier seasonings, may Strengthening the drinl<'s among a population of OF ANY INSECT— cure what ails tiie taste flavor and its cherry scent Americans that is expected buds of America's aging citi- had no effect on the senior to grow at an unprece- AS LONG AS 10 INCHES. zenry, according to a citizens' reaction to the dented rate, Clydesdale sug- study by food scientists at liquid, but changing its hue gests. "There's not much the University of Massa- from a pale orange-red to point in living to be a hundred Then the volunteers! taste chusetts in Amherst. The a deeper red did. By contrast, if you can't enjoy what you buds were stained, viewed researchers found that the drinl<'s taste and smell eat and drink," he notes. through a microscope, and enhanced color can com- made it attractive to the —George Nobbe counted, revealing a rela- pensate for flagging younger subjects, who cared tionship between the number senses of smell and taste. little about its color "Science has radically of taste buds and the "It seems that as the "The older subjects were changed the con- ability to taste the chemical sense of flavor decreases, at a significant disadvan- ditions of human life on solution. "We also found the sense of sight is used tage when it came to flavor earth. It has ex- that supertasters' papillae, to compensate," says quality and overall accept- panded our knowledge and mushroom-shaped Professor Fergus Clydes- ability" says Clydesdale. "We our power but structures that hold taste dale, who conducted might begin to 'see' flavor not our capacity to use them buds, were shaped dif- a controlled experiment in with our eyes as we get old- with wisdom. ferently—smaller and packed which college students er," he speculates. —J. William Fulbright closer together," Bartoshuk explains. "We dont know why yet. Other taste tests re- CHOLESTEROL LIKE vealed that all tasters per- RABBITS ceive some tastes similarly, including aspartame and If human beings with choles- salt. But supertasters tend to terol problems bear much find alcohol and saccha- resemblance to Watanabe rine more bitter. Sugar seems or New Zealand white rabbits, sweeter to supertasters then an enzyme patented than to medium or ncntasters, by chemical and biomedical and they find some green engineers at the Massa- vegetables bitter—convincing chusetts Institute of Technol- Bartoshuk that kids should ogy could help us reduce never be forced to eat food harmful low-density lipopro- they dislike. teins—the ones that store One day, the food in- cholesterol— in remarkably dustry may develop prod- short order. ucts based on this new An enzyme called phos- information about the differ- pholipase Ag reduced the ences in hew people rabbits' cholesterol levels by taste, Bartoshuk speculates. 40 percent just over an

"I hope they'll take a hour after they underwent healthier approach than just blood treatments that im- creating new junk food," part a cleansing effect simi- she says. "For example, if lar tc that of kidney dialy- dairy products are un- sis, according to Robert S. pleasant to supertasters, how Langer and his colleagues. can they be modified tc The substance cuts the half- taste better?" life of lipoproteins from A patented enzyme made in part from purified snake venom and —Sherry Baker between 12 and 14 hours to platelets may reduce harmful cholesterol-storing lipoproteins. just 30 minutes, "The enzyme alters LDL

cholesterol so that it is IT'S BEEN ESTIMATED THAT ALL THE GENETIC MATERIAL more rapidly destroyed by IN THE SPERM AND EGG CELLS THAT the body itself, breaking PRODUCED THE PRESENT HUMAN POPULATION COULD it down many times faster PIT IN A SPACE THE SIZE OF AN ASPIRIN. than normal," Langer explains. The researchers screened some 50 po- tential enzymes before hit- delivered'by dialysis or Want to share your views? ting on phcsphcljpase, implant. The MIT researchers 285-5483. Your which he describes as an have licensed the technol- Gal! (900) will be recorded "immobilized enzyme," ogy to W.R. Grace and Com- comments appear in an fashioned from purified snake pany which financed the and may venom and platelets, original research. upcoming issue of Omni. among other ingredients. —George Nobbe The cost is 95 cents per Phospholipase Aj won't minute. You must be age reach clinical trials, much "/ have discovered 18 or older. Touch-tone less be submitted for ap- the secret formula for a phones only. Sponsored by proval to the Food and Drug carefree Old Age: Pure Entertainment, 505 S. Administration, for several ICR^FI 'If You Can't Re- Beverly Dr., Suite 977,

call It, Forget It.'" // Winers not your thing, you may years, cautions Langer, who Beverly Hilis, GA 90212. just have supertaste. envisions the enzyme being —Goodman Ace 1

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THE VANISHING coming back under commu- Russia must act swiftly TIGER nism; now there's no fund- by enforcing strict laws to ing to protect them. The ti- discourage poaching of the Global Response Is an gers could be extinct by the Siberian tiger Your letters environmental group that end of the century" to Russian dignitaries will takes action by encour- The Sibehan tiger is the show international concern aging members to write to largest of seven sub- for this symbol of the wild. decision makers in ctiarge species of tigers. About 200 Write to President Boris of environmental protec- survive in the region of Yeltsin, The Kremlin, Mos- tion. Omni will periodically Primorski; fifty more live in cow 117296, Russia; to inform readers of partlou- Khabarovsk, to the north. Governor Yevgeny Nazdra- lar Global Response actions. They inhabit a wooded, tenko. White House/Beiyi To join Global Response, mountainous country cov- Dom, Ul,Svetlanskaya22, write to Box 7490, Boulder, ered by the taiga—a tem- Vladivostok 690022, Pri- Colorado 80306-7490. perate mixed coniferous and morski Krai, Russia; and to Once the symbol of the deciduous forest renowned Governor Victor Ishayev,

great Russian Far East, for its high level of bio- White House/Belyi Dom, Ul. diversity coveted by the Karla Marxa 56, Kha- the Siberian tiger faces a now Russia must act swiftly if it's to deadly struggle for sur- global wood-products save ttie Siberian tiger barovsk 680000, Khabarov- vival. "In the winter of 1992- industry ski Krai, Russia. 1993, fifty tigers out of Habitat loss figures being dragged from For more information on a total population of three into the tigers' dwindling the forest and have found the Siberian tiger, contact hundred were poached," numbers, but the immediate surviving cubs facing the Pacific Environmental Re- says Global Response threat is from hunters who starvation. Time after time, source Center, 1055 Fort founder Roy Young, who sell tiger skins on the wildlife poachers have escaped Cronkhite, Sausalito, Califor- visited Primorski Krai black market. Villagers prosecution through legal nia 94965; (415) 332-8200.

last fall. 'The tigers were have witnessed dead tigers loopholes. -—Elizabeth Caile

\ou happen to see an un- specimens of a Cadboro- dulating 30-foot creature with THE ENERGY RELEASED saurus exist, although ancient native peoples de- a long neck; short, point- IN ONE HOUR ed flipper; split tail; horselike BYASINGLESUNSPOT picted it in rook carvings head bulging eyes; and and on a 1,700-year-old hunt- IS EQUAL TO ALL eithet herns or ears paddling ing implement called an THE ELECTRICAL POWER alongside, do give Paul Le- atlatl. Nor is there a fossil THAT WILL BE Blond or Ed Bousfield a call. record of the beast. USED IN THE UNITED You may have seen a Cad- There were five Caddy STATES OVER borosaurus, and they've been sightings last year; six spec- THE NEXT MILLION YEARS. looking for one. imens, mostly juveniles and Both LeBlond, an ocean- none extant, have been re-

Ancient native rock carvings ography professor at the covered in the last 60 years. bach: up Caddy sightings. University of British Colum- "There's been too much LeBlond and Bousfield be- bia in Vancouver, and evidence to ignore," says lieve Caddy lives in deep FORGET THE FINS— Bousfield, a retired biologist Bousfield, who believes Cad- water, which would account THIS CADDY'S affiliated with the natural dy is probably reptilian for its ability to survive GOT A FLIPPER history department at the Roy- and feeds on fish and squid uncaught. Those who have al B.C. Museum in Victo- in the Strait of San Juan glimpsed the alleged

If youYe sailing the coastal ria, insist that the alleged sea de Fuqua between the main- beast say Caddy coiild weigh waters anywhere from beast, nicknamed Caddy, land and Vancouver Island. as much as three tons and British Columbia down to can't be dismissed as a North The problem with Bous- move at speeds of up to 40 Oregon or the Alaskan American version cf Scot- field and LeBlond's theory lies miles per hour. panhandle this summer and land's Loch Ness monster in the fact that no living —George Nobbe 26 OMNI . Spaceweek 1994 Poster Apollo 11 - 25th Anniversary

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and it operates with non- of decay as small as

ionizing radiation, so it can one-third of a millimeter that be used continuously could not be detected According to Abund O. by x-ray" Wist, light passes through Unlike x-rays, Wist's sys-

the tooth and is picked up by tems could also distin- a photodlode detector guish between dead teeth which sends electrical sig- and living ones by Identi- nals along a thin cable to fying the characteristic blood a computer. The computer circulation of a live tooth. digitizes the signals, pro- X-rays remain more effective ducing an image of the tooth at this time, however at re- on a video monitor. Spe- vealing the contours of metal cialized software could also fillings and the location of produce a three-dimen- pins used In root-canal work. sional image that the dentist International Sensor of can rotate on the screen, Pittsburgh Is interested in de- giving a view of the tooth from veloping a commercial any angle. The dentine and enamel of human teeth have a TWENTY-SIX ASTRO- tubular structure. "The light NAUTS HAVE REPORTED can pass through this SEEING UFOS WHILE structure because the tu- IN ORBIT AROUND EARTH. bules are hollow, even

though it is very hard. It is

It might not save you from the dentist's drill, but a prototype laser like a very hard sponge," system may help early tooth decay detection. Wist explains. version of Wist's invention. His patented laser system Before the system can A LASER IN EVERY cist at the Medical College makes areas of tooth de- go Into clinical trials, howevet; DENTIST'S OFFICE of Virginia can scan a cay appear as dark regions the company must devel-

tooth for signs of decay with on the laser Image because op a way to miniaturize it, a

It may never replace the old- equal efficiency and offers they scatter more light formidable task consider- fashioned dental x-ray, but several advantages. It elimi- than healthy tooth material. ing that the prototype is the a prototype laser system de- nates that agonizing wait With the laser he and his impractical size of an or- vised by a radiation physi- for x-rays to be developed, colleagues "detected areas ange crate. —George Nobbe

VIDEOTAPE GOES BASF Introduced what it fect in a few years, that vaging parts and plastics GREEN IN EUROPE calls the first 100-percent re- will require manufacturers from used cassettes turned cyclable videocassette. of everything from scour- in by consumers and has

It seems that the folks Europeans have tired of see- ing pads to steam shovels to created a reclamation net- who gave us throwaway ing their landfills overflow- provide for the products' work. "We have been VCRs and mammoth- ing with abandoned TV sets orderly disposal once they've approached by other manu- screen color televisions have and other video products, reached the end of their facturers, and we ex- gotten the environmental says BASF spokesperson useful lives. pect to offer this feature in gospel—at least in Europe, Martin Bullesbach, and Euro- "We are anticipating that North America within a where several manufac- pean consumer elec- by reducing the number year perhaps in combination turers are striving to make tronics firms are responding. of plastics in our audio- and with other companies." their products more envi- Another reason for the videocassettes and pro- Other European compa- ronmentally friendly rush to go green lies with the viding for their reuse," Bulles- nies have promised to At a recent radio-televi- European Community's de- bach explains. BASF has develop low-power TV sets. sion convention in Berlin, cision, scheduled to take ef- designed a system for sal- ^Robert Angus

28 OMNI CASTING A NEW LIGHT ON THE "S / i t H Ij K t IS Hfi ILJt Vb e R T ( watcfied, NASA tried franticaily for days

to re-estabiisfi radio contact with its precious orbiter but failed. An independ- ent NASA review board concluded that the breakdown resulted from a rupture of a propulsion-system line as the probe began pressurizing its fuel tanks. Whatever the cause, the loss of the Observer meant the loss, too, of our chance to learn the truth behind

Cydonia and its mysterious face. But perhaps only temporarily: NASA has already dusted itself off after the images taken during Vikir Observer's ignominious failure and

fiftln orbit of Mars. One of tl FACE-SHAPED MESA

mile long and 1,500 feet high —that enthusiasm for the space program resembled a humanoid face. AND SOME NEARBY waning while interest in the Mars face ^L, Viking mounts, will NASA make special project scientist ur. ueraid Soffen LANDFORMS provisions for the new spacecraft to popped up a slide showing this very examine Cydonia? Perhaps. Should it? quirky image in the Martian desert," In Hoagland's opinion, most definitely. recalls Richard C. Hoagland, then a ARE ARTIFICIAL While NASA was designing the Mars

member of the JPL press corps. "As Observer, he urged it to photograph the ,.,„„rt^,^ ,.,„„ „„i^„|-| ^;^,it|-| pens ready. STRUCTURES face and other so-called anomalous structures in detail, and he continues to call for the agency to do everything within its power to resolve this otherworldly mystery. or all his unorthodox claims, Hoagland, author of The Monuments of

- ' id considerable experience

..„,„„, a ....,, the space community. He was a consultant to CBS News, where he designed space simulations and advised Walter Cronkite on the lighting angle at which it was photo- network's coverage of the Apollo lunar graphed created its resemblance to a missions. In 1972,' eminent planetary human face. Hoagland, however, re- CREATED BY scientist Carl Sagan credited Hoagland, mains unconvinced, and he has led a as well as British space pioneer Eric ten-year independent investigation of INTELLIGENT BEINCS, urgess, for the initial suggestion to the Viking data. After analyzing specific include a recorded message aboard frames, taken with different sun angles ACCORDING Pioneer 10. And at the time of the during orbits weeks apart, he contends, Viking mission, Hoagland was under his interdisciplinary team of researchers contract as an author/consultant to mtial evidence that the TO DATA COLLECTED NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. race, some aajacent pyramid structures, Hoagland's involvement with the and other objects on Mars' surface BY AUTHOR Cydonia controversy began in 1981 were created by intelligent beings. when, after seeing the work of Vincent On August 21, 1993, the Mars RICHARD HOACLAND DiPietro and Gregory Molennar at a Observer spacecraft was preparing to science conference, he first wondered if settle into orbit around Mars to begin a the face amounted to more than a HIS two-year mission to photograph and AND TEAM natural landform or a trick of lighting. analyze the surface of the Red- Planet "These two computer-imaging experts when it abruptly fell silent. As the world OF RESEARCHERS. had obtained data tapes of the face and LONGEVITY

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A scientifically derived hypothesis, sup- imaging data acquisition and release.

ported by a mounting file of carefully devel- This situation is cause for alarm. In my

oped data, has been put forward as the report, I put forward recommendations to result of over a decade of painstaking work prevent the impending scientific disaster of by several teams of highly qualified failure to obtain new photographs of

independent investigators, employing state- Cydonia, and restore public confidence in of-the-art techniques. The hypothesis does NASA's commitment to unbiased explor-

not claim there is proof of artificial features ation of the solar system. These recommen- on Mars. It claims only that the probability is ISNT dations include the following: strong enough to make new high-resolution NASA and any private contractor in-

priority for any future volved in imaging, by agreement, will photographs a top IT ABOUT TIME mission to Mars. assign a level of priority to suspect land- In my intensive, detailed study of this FOR NASA forms that will ensure the obtaining of high- subject {The McDaniel Report, North resolution photographs of those Iandforms,

Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 1994), I TO LOOK CLOSELY using ail means at their disposal, subject adopt the following principle: Any rea- only to uncertainties beyond their control. sonable degree of doubt regarding the AT THE Imaging data gathered during camera natural origin of any of the debated features passes over the area specified will not be creates a profound and compelling ethical POSSIBILITY OF subject to the proprietary aspects of the

obligation for NASA to give extremely high principal investigator's contract with NASA. priority to obtaining new high-resolution ARTIFICIAL This includes the raw data prior to process- images of these iandforms: ing, but after the camera data has been Former NASA astronaut Joseph P. STRUCTURES IN separated from that of other instrumentation.

Kerwin writes: "You could put it in the form The scientific community and the gen- CYDONIA? of an equation. The importance of gleaning eral public will be given advance notice, further information on certain Martian within the constraints of predictability, as to A REQUEST FOR objects equals (the likelihood of their being when each pass over the area will occur, in the products of intelligent manufacture) order to prepare receive the ACTION. to data. times (the importance of that fact if proven The raw data for the specific area will be true). Now, no matter hovi/ small the first released to scientists and to the public number is, as long as it isn't zero, the immediately upon receipt at JPL (the Jet equation is going to return a sizeable total, Propulsion Laboratory), with no time delay- because the second number is big!" Video image conversion of the data re-

NASA has failed to take into account the ceived in the same passes will be released ethical equation, and has failed to grant immediately in a continuous stream to appropriate priority to obtaining new NASA Select-TV, PBS, and others who images of the Iandforms. The situation is desire to receive it.

critical. For the first time in the history of the In the interest of science, I urge the space program, control of the imaging readers of Omni to support these recom- facility has been turned over to a private mendations by writing to Daniel Goldin at contractor who can delay release of the NASA in Washington, DC, and to their local data for a black-box period of as long as six congressional representatives. months, has a demonstrable lack of interest in the artificiality hypothesis, and has been Editor's note: You can get more information given sole authority by NASA to determine about The McDaniel Report by calling 213- which objects are to be photographed. By 964-2500. And join the debate on this means of a technicality, NASA has now provocative topic by visiting Omni Online introduced an unprecedented restriction on via America Online. — —

had enhanced it," Hoagland says. intersects the center of the city, while between these and other objsc:s "Their photographs showed some an extension of its right arm intersects arrayed at Cydonia—that are replies:- remarl

frames for comparison. "As I sat there nomenon isn't conclusive proof of the and Mars—via satellite Images, and looking at the photographs," Hoagland structures' artificiality, "But what is con- although his studies found no signs of

says, "I began to wonder why no one clusive," he explains, "are the much intelligent life on the Red Planet, they

had taken this seriously, and what if it more subtle angles —measured did establish criteria for identifying wasn't just a trick of lighting?" Hoagland soon agreed with DiPietro and Molennar that the face appeared bilaterally symmetric. "It had features Sleep Better Than which were humanoid," he remembers,

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Hoagland believed it's unlikely that two be made firmer or very unnatural-looking objects like the softer, so you face and the pyramid would exist on each Call For Store Nearest You Mars in proximity. such close the exact Erol Torun, a physical scientist with support the Defense Mapping Agency who has ! 1-800-831:1211 you X'ideo, on his own time studied the large pyra- Please send me a FRhh Brochure and Price List. mid, corroborates DiPietro's and need. Molennar's findings. The pyramid's "position and orientation— in respect to other suspicious objects in the immedi- ate vicinity—are perfectly aligned," he says. The pyramid's main axis aligns Mail to: Select Comfort Corporation | I with the face, he explains, and an 6105 Trenron Lane N„ Minneapolis, MN 55442 Dept 28591 extension of the left arm of the pyramid such intelligence in satellite photos. In Some others who have studied the face," says Carlotto. "It always did to an episode of the Cosmos television photos Viking sent back, however, me, and that was the intriguing thing series called "Blues for a Red Planet," have failed to arrive at the same con- that piqued my curiosity to make me

Sagan demonstrated that "intelligent clusion. "I don't know any people of take a closer look at the data." Carlotto, life on Earth first reveals itself through any consequence who give any cre- author of The Martian Enigmas, has the geometric regularity of its construc- dence to this whatsoever," declares specifically attempted to test the validi- tions"—an intricate pattern of straight IVlichael Carr, who headed the Viking ty of NASA's trick-of-lighting explana- lines, squares, rectangles, and circles. orbiter imaging team. "Not one person tion for the face. Using a "shape-from- Canals, roads, and circular irrigation of scientific credibility believes this." In shading" image-analysis technique patterns, he explained, 'all suggest addition, Carr, presently a geologist that creates a three-dimensional image intelligent life with a passion for with the U.S. Geological Survey, says from two-dimensional data, he has Euclidean geometry." But the Viking he doesn't know of a "single Viking concluded that "the impression of a spacecraft, Sagan concluded, didn't image that has pyramids on it." face is not a trick of lighting. Three- detect any such manufactured struc- Although some members of the JPL dimensional imagery suggests that the tures. Nevertheless, Hoagland main- staff did note the mesa's resemblance impression of facial features persists tains that the Viking photos of Cydonia to a face when Viking sent back that over a wide range of illumination and do show intelligently constructed particular image, he admits, the lab viewing conditions."

objects — not just random hills and published it "only for laughs." While the face has received the mountains—because there is "geomet- But still other members of the scien- most attention, another object that ric regularity"—but not exactly the kind tific community—even some at Hoagland discovered back in 1983 for which Sagan had searched. NASA— believe the face and nearby and termed the "fort" is perhaps the "The large Cydonian pyramid is a objects merit further study. Mark most interesting feature in the Viking

geometric figure on Mars that has Inter- Carlotto, a former division staff analyst frames, according to Carlotto. "I char- nal angles which are identical to those with the image-computing technology acterize this as a polyhedral object," that can be measured between the division at TASC—an analytic services Carlotto says, "with very straight sides face, the city, and other key surface corporation that performs satellite- and regularly shaped markings or features nearby," Hoagland says. "The based image processing —began indentations." When he used shape-

meaning in this is that if you find a spe- examining the Viking data in 1985 after from-shading to create a 3-D image, he cific geometry in the pyramid and then reading about Hoagland's studies. adds, "this object appeared to be an you find a bigger example of the same Cariotto's expertise in analyzing satel- enclosed structure that had somehow

geometry spread out over many mere lite images has made him a key player lost its top- It did not look natural,"

square miles, it's telling you some- in the investigation. Other tests Carlotto has performed thing—that it's not natural." "The mesa obviously looks like a indicate that the face and some other Cydonian objects are strongly nonfrao- tal, meaning they don't appear to have occurred naturally Using some tech- niques developed at TASC to detect manmade structures in satellite images, he and some colleagues determined that the face doesn't share the oharaoteristics of the terrain that

surrounds it. Hoagland, Carlotto, and others investigating the structures have con- cluded that only high-resolution photos, the type iviars Observer was to take, can lay the mystery of Cydonia to rest. But the Observer's camera, while capable of taking pictures 30 times sharper than Viking's, had targeting

limitations that made it quite possible that the probe wouldn't have captured

sharp photos of the structures in ques- tion—and the new spacecraft currently on the drawing board will carry the

same type of camera. So even if the new probes get off the ground, we could be left without high-resolution frnrinnQ':RW pictures of the face and other struc- tures unless NASA—or another organi- zation capable of sending a spacecraft to Mars—makes photographing the Cy- donian monuments a mission priority. "There's been a lot of discussion,

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to revise old ideas. But the latest invention from Dr. Ron Klatz is nothing less

than an invitation to redefine life. THE RESUSCITATOR BY JANET STITES

Although the name of the

device is slightly mislead- that necessity is the Im^imci ing — the BRD is not in-

of invention. Sometimes, it tended to revive a dead seems, we have to first brain,-^ but to keep the

redefine what it is that is brain viable during trauma and thus limit the amount the ultimate necessity for ' of brain damage that vic- humans is not only to tims suffer—the concept breathe, but to live. demonstrates Klatz's con- A surgeon and osteo- cern that current medical path by training, inventor procedures are prioritizing by passion, and salesperson out of necessity, the wrong organ. In a statement that borders on Klatz is co-founder of Life Resuscitation Tech- medical blasphemy, he calls cardiopulmonary nologies, a Chicago-based company working in resuscitation (CPR) "the Emperor's new clothes the field of human resuscitation technology. of emergency medicine," explaining that CPR is Home for LRT is an outwardly nondescript often ineffective and, in some cases, damaging. building on the edge of Lincoln Park. It is also "It's not that CPR doesn't work at all," he says,, the center for the National Academy for Sports "it's that It takes too long to work. While the Medicine and the American Academy of Anti- heart, the kidneys, the lungs, and -the liver can Aging Medicine run by Klatz and his partner, Dr. survive for thirty minutes to an hour without

Robert Goldman. The building has been both a blood flow, the brain Is only good for six to eight Lutheran boys' school and a plastics novelty minutes before suffering irreversible damage." factory and is now part gymnasium, part mu- We've moved from the offices to the clinic in seum, and part clinic. Dark panelled rooms hold the basement of the building where, before he an eclectic collection of antiquities — heavy started work on the BRD, Klatz received furniture dating from the fifteenth century, patients. Using a dummy, he demonstrates how elephant-tusk chairs, and bear-skin run.q. An thP RRn functions. The system is actually

ornai ^ , ._. „. „, , ; „ .,/o devices, the Brain Cooling on top of an antiquated scale. Device, which cools the head externally, and The environment is distracting, and for a the Brain Resuscitation Device, which cools the moment I've forgotten why I've come. But Klatz brain internally. The Brain Cooling Device t,^^ ...„„;„„^ *„ „i — j|.^g latest invention consists of a backplate, used to put the victim's neck in the proper anatomical position for CPR, and a hollow helmet that can be filled with dry PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAN McCOY —

ice to cool the scalp. When reaching "PEOPLE LIVE equipment is essential to such a victim, paramedics would apply the surgery, doctors at the Novosibirsk WITH PARTIAL LUNGS. Brain Cooling Device first and then Institute in Siberia are using the implement the Brain Resuscitation WITHOUT cooling method for heart surgery Device. By pumping what Kiatz calls KIDNEYS, PANCREASES, because of a lack of equipment, a "chemical cocktail" —a mixture of according to articles recently pub- oxygen and nutrients through the STOMACHS. SOME lished in the New York Times neck's prominent carotid arteries into HAVE EVEN LOST THEIR Magazine. The story recounts sur- the brain, this device ensures that geons' efforts to repair a hole in a HEART—RARNEY the brain will receive elements vital 12-year-old girl's heart. Doctors to its survival. After the demon- CLARK FOR EXAMPLE. RUT packed her body in ice to block the stration, Klatz coyly concedes, "The flow of blood to the brain and NO ONE'S STUCK BRD is basically a cerebral bypass stopped the heart with potassium pump in a briefcase." AROUND WHO'S LOST chloride, rendering the child clini- The premise for the BRD can be HIS DRAIN." cally dead. The crude procedure found in years of medical practice gave them 90 minutes to complete and common sense. Cold water has long been the surgery without risking brain damage. Heart used as a remedy for fevers and as an agent for surgeons at the Institute perform 1,200 to 1,500 blood coagulation, and for years physicians have similar operations a year. suspected it could be harnessed for more ad- Closer to home, Klatz reminds me of the story of vanced procedures. According to Dr. Robert Pozos, Jimmy Tontlewicz, a four-year-old who captured who studies the effects of extreme hot and cold on national attention after falling through the ice on the body at the Naval Health Research Center in Lake Michigan in January, 1984. Tontlewicz had no San Diego, "Cooling works by slowing the body's measurable vital signs when rescue workers pulled

metabolism and thereby diminishing its need for him from the water 20 minutes after his fall. At the oxygen." He adds that internal cooling has been hospital, however, doctors were able to restart his used routinely since the early Fifties during heart and, by understanding the effects of brain coronary bypass surgery, allowing surgeons a cooling, bring him to a near-full recovery. "The BRD window of 35 minutes to an hour to operate with is Lake Michigan in a box," Klatz says, holding up a minimal damage to vital organs. container that's not much bigger than a Samsonite

While Pozos insists sophisticated monitoring make-up kit. 40 OMN[ What makes the device particu- aside and pursued a career in pain there has been an increase in criti- larly valuable is its size. It's suitable relief and sports medicine. In the cism of the effectiveness of CPR, A for ambulances, emergency rooms, Eighties, however, the fear of AIDS- 1989 report from the American ships, any place that might have a contaminated blood sparked re- College of Emergency Physicians, defibrillator, the instrument essen- newed support for developing for instance, claims CPR is only tial to getting the heart beating blood substitutes, which could effective four percent of the time again. Military medics, for instance, serve as Klatz's missing ingredient. outside of the hospital and 14 per- might carry it as a fannypack. "Once Artificial or substitute blood allevi- cent in the hospital. For inpatients you're on the scene, you can get ates the threat of blood contamina- over 55, the statistics show that the BRD set-up on someone inside tion during transfusions, negates only four percent of patients are of a minute," Klatz says. "And then the problem of typing, and has the successfully revived through the begin to administer CPR." He con- added advantage of having a longer use of CPR.

tends that intervention from the shelf life than real blood. It acts pri- Another report from researchers BRD could prevent stroke victims marily as an oxygen carrier, emu- at Duke University Medical Center from suffering paralysis or keep lating the function of red blood detailed a damaging in-house sur- shooting and accident victims cells. For the BRD, the chilled artifi- vey on the efficiency of CPR, The viable for surgery. The difference cial blood is the 'chemical cock- study was initiated, according to between implementing CPR with or tall" that carries oxygen and nutri- Duke cardiologist Dr. Christopher without the BRD is the difference ents tc the brain and promotes O'Connor, to look at the cost of between Tontlewicz falling into a cooling. When Klatz found artificial resuscitative efforts. "I had a feel- warm or cold Lake Michigan. The blood was in the pipelines for ing only a few patients were bene- cold water was the vital factor development, he secured patents fiting from CPR," O'Connor says. behind his miraculous recovery, for his invention and is now devot- The results were even more aston- Klatz has always been fascinat- ing himself full time to the project. ishing than he anticipated. Of 146

ed by the edge of life. "When I was A second problem Klatz must patients who had received CPR at a kid, my idea of a good time was address is the potential that trauma the medical center between 1988 exploring the catacombs of and 1991, 61 died im- Einstein Medical Center mediately. Of the 85 who down the street from my BASICALLY A BYPASS were successfully resus- house in Philadelphia," he citated, only seven pa- says. "I witnessed my first PUMP IN A BRIEFCASE, THE BRD SENDS A tients were ever dis-

CPR attempt when I was charged from the hospi- ten. They thought I was a CHEMICAL COCKTAIL tal — only five of whom- member of the family and could live independent-

didn't kick me out of the THROUGH THE NECK'S CAROTID ARTERIES ly, "It's not that the tech-

room. I didn't know what nique wasn't done well," was going on, but it was ENSURING THAT O'Connor says, "We had exciting." At 15, he began a 58 percent success working as a respiratory THE BRAIN RECEIVES VITAL NUTRIENTS. rate. But of those we medical technician and be- resuscitated, only a few came a respiratory thera- left the hospital." pist at 16. "I observed hundreds of victims might suffer secondary A study published in a 1992 CPR attempts," he recalls. "Eve- injuries caused by oxygen-free rad- issue of the Journal of the ryone felt like a hero when they got icals — unstable, highly reactive American Medical Association the heart going again." But as a molecules which steal electrons gave an even dimmer view of the respiratory therapist, Klatz had to from other molecules and can survival rates of victims suffering monitor the long-term care of these cause extensive cellular damage. out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, patients. "What became very clear In some cases, the damage done especially in metropolitan areas. was that the majority of the patients by free radicals, upon resuscita- The study compared the overall never got off the ventilators, never tion, can outweigh the damage survival rate for the Chicago area left the hospital. The person was caused by the original oxygen against previously reported rates, dead, brain dead, It was terrible for deprivation. Klatz again is in luck. based on smaller communities. An the family." Upjohn is currently developing astonishing 91 percent of the It was while taking care of such chemical compounds called lazar- patients resuscitated by CPR were a patient in 1975 that Klatz first had oids that act as free-radical neu- pronounced dead in emergency the inspiration for the Brain tralizers and inhibit the devastating departments, while seven percent Resuscitation Device. "I knew it chain reaction. Klatz hopes to in- died in the hospital. Only two per- could work," he says, "but all the corporate such a compound as a cent survived to be discharged. It's pieces weren't there." Primarily, part of the artificial blood mixture important to note here that the what was missing was an agent to needed to operate the BRD. "If the Chicago study also reported that carry the oxygen and nutrients to BRD buys us 20 minutes, it will be survival was "significantly greater" the brain, an agent like blood. a miraculous success," Klatz says. when a bystander to a cardiac Using real blood in emergency sit- "But with the lazaroids, we're antic- arrest immediately initiated CPR. uations, especially outside of the ipating we'll get 45 minutes to an Nevertheless, even the Ameri- hospital, is not feasible. There are hour. Maybe a whole lot longer." can Red Cross acknowledges that too many problems with compatibil- Ironically, just as researchers CPR is less effective than they had ity, and blood has a short shelf life. are developing the necessary com- hoped when it was introduced. Klatz put plans for the BRD ponents to make the BRD viable, "Typically, you do CPR for the stand- 42 OMNI "

ard heart attack victim who has is the lingering suspicion that the to preserve organs." For families gone into cardiac arrest," says Dr. victim may yet be revived. Fahy willing to donate, the ORD can Larry Newell, program manager for speculates that application of the maintain organs in the body until the Department of Health and BRD might convince relatives that they can be readied for transplant

Safety at Red Cross, "We also do every conceivable thing has been or storage. If permission is denied, CPR for a trauma victim —someone done to resuscitate a victim. More- the device can be easily removed who has been physically injured over, the application of the BRD with no damage to the deceased. causing the heart to stop— but we would inadvertently keep organs In anticipation of FDA approval, have a low likelihood or expecta- viable for donation while the family Fahy's lab is running animal tests tion for survival." The Red Cross makes up its mind, because the on both the BRD and the ORD for recently changed its guidelines, same sorts of chemicals used to Klatz. But Klatz isn't waiting for now urging people to call 911 protect the brain should also be anyone's permission to improve his before starting CPR to expedite the useful in preserving the organs. inventions. "We're working right arrival of trained medical personnel And, cooling the brain should lead now on incorporating a feedback equipped with defibrillators. "Early to some systemic hypothermia, monitoring system into the helmet defibrillation is paramount to suc- protecting the rest of the body to tell us the real-time metabolic cess," Newell says, adding that the Klatz has recognized this poten- status of the brain," he says. "That worst thing to do in the case of an tial and is also working on another would allow us to alter the chemi- emergency is nothing. invention, the Organ Resuscitation cal constituent of the cocktail to Of course in some situations, no Device, "At this time, there are deliver the proper drugs and amount of equipment, speed, or nearly 100,000 people in this coun- achieve maximum improvement. It skill can save a life. While direct try waiting for organ transplants," would also tell us when someone is application of the BRD is intended Klatz says. "With over two million brain dead, so we wouldn't waste to save lives, it has additional ad- Americans dying every year, it's the time and resources when some- vantages. According to Greg Fahy ridiculous they can't get them." The one is too far gone." of the Red Cross's Organ Cryopres- ORD is a natural extension of the Beyond that, Klatz envisions a ervation Laboratory in Rockville, BRD, operating in a similar fashion, time when the BRD will be used to Maryland, the BRD may be useful but with different fluids, to cool put seriously injured people in a for organ preservation. "The main organs in the body and keep them coma until their body has healed reason that organs are not used," viable for transplant, "Once para- enough to operate. Much beyond Fahy explains, "is because the next medics have determined a patient that, Klatz timidly admits, the of kin doesn't give permission." He cannot be resuscitated," Klatz device may be used for deep believes one reason people say no explains, "they can use the device space travel, "Arthur C, Clarke- already predicted this in the movie 2001 " he says, "The crew was kept in hibernation pods where their metabolic weight was maintained

at a fraction of what it should be. Brain cooling is the technology that

could make that possible. If it takes three years to get to Mars, there's no reason to have the astronauts sitting around playing cards." For now, Klatz has more down- to-earth concerns. He is dressed in

scrubs sitting , on the basement floqr of the building in Lincoln Park,

I suspect he's been up all night, reading journals or tinkering with his next project — a watch that injects prescription drugs, such as insulin, into the wearer's wrist. Listening to Klatz describe his frus- tration over the formidable task of bringing the BRD to market and his confidence that the BRD will even-

tually receive FDA approval, 1 am reminded of the Italian globe in the office upstairs. Discoveries and adventures are not the product of an idle mind, in- vention is the art of imagining a new world, of redefining old limits, of crossing the tentative border that separates our present from our "It's time we came up with a plan to make the bureaucracy future. And for the man who in- more competitive. vents, that future is always poised on the break of a new dayDO ARTICLE BY DENNIS STACY AND PATRICK HUYGHE This is the fifth piece in a six-part series on As this series of articles explains, UFO researchers government secrecy and UFOs through the have been searching for such evidence in government decades. Here we lool

forever, so it's no surprise when they also picl< up documents, but no hard, technical, incontrovertible

erupting volcanos, oil-well fires, incoming meteors, sun- evidence of UFOs. Finally, in the 1980s, a supposedly light reflections off the ocean, and a host of other heat explosive memo revealed the existence of a top-secret

sources, including those that still remain unexplained. group, dubbed MJ12, made up of high-level govern-

Since 1985, all this ment officials devoted

data has been beamed to the secret reality of

down in near real-time UFOs. Only problem is, to the U.S. Space Com- according to most UFO mand's Missile Warn- experts, the memo was ing Center, operating GOSMIC a hoax. Of course, data from within Cheyenne from crude detection

Mountain, near Color- systems lil

ed national secret. But in the sky.

suddenly, in 1993, with If they could ever the Cold War over, the I'AKr prove their theories. Defense Department FIVE UFOIogists knew, they agreed to declassify would have to tap the some satellite information not related to intercontinental most sophisticated information-gathering technology

ballistic missile (ICBM) launches and nuclear events. available: Department of Defense spy satellites, like the

Since then, scientists ranging from astronomers to Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites, in geo- geophysicists have rushed to get their hands on this synchronous orbit above the earth. In fact, rumor had it, motherlode of data. heat, light, and infrared sensors at the heart of the Among researchers hoping to glean some truth from satellites were routinely picking up moving targets the declassified data are UFOIogists, long frustrated by clearly not missiles and tagged "Valid IR Source." Some the critics' classic retort; "If UFOs are real, why haven't of these targets were given the mysterious code name they been detected by our satellites?" Well, some UFO of "Fast Walker." researchers are now saying, they have been. With Unfortunately for UFOIogists, few secrets in this access to the most sophisticated space data ever country's vast military arsenal have been so closely generated, say some UFO researchers, they may finally guarded as the operational parameters of DSP find the Holy Grail of their profession: bona fide, satellites. Even their exact number is classified. "That irrefutable, nuts-and-bolts proof of UFOs. shouldn't surprise anyone," explains Captain John ILLUSTRATION BY BRUCE JENSEN Kennedy, public affairs officer wifh the is downloaded every ten seconds. All flash events" typically take USAF Space Command Center at Pe- of the data is then stored on large 14- place in a matter of seconds. They are terson Air Force Base, "It's an early inch reels of magnetic tape, "the kind," attributable to meteorites and small as- ICBM launch detection system, and we says Regehr, "that you always see teroids, "Most of what we see are ob- have to protect our own technology for spinning around in science-fiction jects that are probably 10 to 50 meters

obvious reasons. If everyone knew movies, and which till up in about 15 in diameter, about the size of a house, what the system's capabilities were, minutes." The tapes are eventually and packing 300 times the kinetic en- they would try to take steps to get erased and reused. ergy of dynamite/' Tagliaferri says.

around it." But in recent years, thanks Technicians visually monitor the The ramification, however, is that to a loosening of the reigns, a few tan- datastream on a near real-time basis, nervous governments might mistake talizing tidbits of information have man- but only follow up a narrow range of these flash events for nuclear bombs aged to seep under the satellite events—those that match up with what aimed in their direction and trigger a secrecy dam, allowing UFOIogists a the air force calls "templates." Based like response. One of the brightest un- small glimpse of some surprising near- on known rocket fuel burn times and known flash events occurred over In- space events. color spectra, the templates are used donesia on April 15, 1988, shortly The first issue for UFOIogists to ex- to identify ballistic missile launches and before noon, exploding with the ap- amine, explains Ron Regehr of Aerojet nuclear explosions. But the system proximate firepower of 5,000 tons of General in California, the company that also picks up other infrared events high explosives. A slightly less power- builds the DSP sensor systems, is ranging from mid-air collisions of ful detonation shook an uninhabited whether the satellites could detect planes to oil-well fires and volcanoes. expanse of the Pacific Ocean on Octo-

UFOs even if we wanted them to. Ac- "I would say that rarely a week goes ber 1, 1990, in the midst of Operation cording to Regehr, who has worked on by that we don't get some kind of in- Desert Shield.

the satellite sensors for the last 25 frared source that is valid, or real, but "But what if the latter event had ex-

years and even wrote its operational unknown," admits Edward Tagliaferri, a ploded a little lower in the atmosphere, software specifications, the answer to physicist and consultant to the Aero- and over, say, Baghdad?" Tagliaferri that question was revealed in 1990, space Corporation in El Segundo, Cali- warns. "The consequences could well during Operation Desert have been disastrous. Storm. "As we now know," Ground observers would says Regehr, "the satellites have seen a fireball the I WOULD SAY THAT picked up every one of the 70 brightness of the sun and Iraqi Scud launches, and the RARELY A WEEK GOES BY THAT WE DON'T GET heard a shock wave rattle Scud is a very low-intensity in- windows. Given the mind- frared source compared to SOME KIND OF INFRARED set of the Iraqis, Israelis-, the average ICBM." and the other combatants Pursuing the matter further SOURCE THAT IS REAL BUT UNKNOWN. In the area at the time, any Regehr turned to an article of them might have con- published in MIJI Quarterly, HOWEVER, ONCE WE cluded that they were "Now You See It, Now You under nuclear attack and Don't," which detailed a Sep- DETERMINE IT ISN'T A THREAT, OUR JOB IS DONE. responded accordingly." tember, 1976 UFO encounter The argument that near Teheran, The incident in- some UFOs might be ca- volved two brilliantly glowing UFOs first fornia, a nonprofit air force satellite- pable of triggering a similar false alarm seen by ground observers. One object, engineering contractor. "But once we has been made many times in the past

or light source, an estimated 30 feet in determine it isn't a threat, that's basi- by, among others, the Soviets, An arti- diameter, reportedly went from ground cally the end of our job. We aren't paid cle titled "UFOs and Security," which level to an altitude of 40.000 feet, and to look at each and every one." appeared in the June, 1989 issue of was visible at a distance of 70 miles. Tagliaferri and a handful of col- Soviet Military Review, states: "We be- An Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 jet leagues are among the few civilian lieve that lack of information on the fighter was sent aloft and managed to space scientists who have thus far characteristics and influence of UFOs aim a Sidewinder AIM-19 air-to-air mis- been allowed access to the Depart- increases the threat of incorrect identifi- sile at the target before its electronic ment of Defense database. Their re- cation. Then, mass transit of UFOs systems failed. search, based on spy satellite data along trajectories close to those of

"Apart from the visible light factor, declassified in the tall of 1993, is part combat missiles could be regarded by there's the indication that the UFO gave of a chapter In Hazards Due to Comets computers as an attack,"

off enough infrared energy for the and Asteroids, from the University of But when asked if some unknowns

Sidewinder's IR sensor to lock on to it," Arizona Press. ''I think the air force fi- detected by satellite sensors might says Regehr. "You can do a few simple nally agreed that the data had scien- represent real UFOs rather than incom- calculations," he adds, "and conclude tific, as well as political and global ing meteorites, Tagliaferri chuckles.

that the DSP satellites of the day security value," says Tagliaferh, "Personally, I don't think so," he says. should easily have been able to see What Tagliaferri and his collabora- "But who knows? How can you tell? I'm

the same thing. Of course, 1 can't say tors were able to confirm was that be- a scientist, a physicist, and to my mind they did, or if they did, whether or not it tween 1975 and 1992, DOD satellites the evidence of UFOs is just not con- was recorded in the database." detected 136 upper-atmosphere explo- vincing. On the other hand, I've been Part of the problem, according to sions, a few equivalent in energy to the wrong before." Regehr, is the sheer mountain of data atomic bombs that destroyed Hi- UFOIogists, meanwhile, think that that the DSP satellites generate. On roshima and Nagasaki, Unlike the proof might be lurking in the stacks of average, an infrared portrait of the three- to ten-minute burn periods of an printouts from the DSP system comput- earth's surface and surrounding space ICBivl, these previously unacknowl- ers. But the only material of this sort 50 OMNI CONTINUED ON PAGE 87 PICTORIAL

%auty and the Beast Finding the Missing Links his book, Anima, photographer James Baiog brings us face to face with

our pasts, our futures, love, curiosity, effort at exorcism. ourselves. and a thousand other As much as we By pairing humans moods and follies. struggle to and chimpan- Perhaps our rela- establish lines of

zees in intimate, lov- tionship with demarcation

ing poses, he chimpanzees is a between ourselves

underscores our little too close and the rest of common inher- lor comfort. The yel- the animal kingdom, itances. As Baiog low-brown eyes we do nothing

points cut, of the natural world but enforce our kin- chimpanzees are patiently watch ship with nature. humanity's our fires from the A territorial animal

ciosest living relative, darkness. We is defined by ^. y.^^"^t^f'^ and humans smell the stink of its the boundaries he are chimpanzees' sweat and establishes for closest living shit down the wind. himself. Without the

relative. We knovw Against it, we territory, the

this not only build walls, erect animal will become from bone structure, barricades. undifferentiated, facial expres- We carefully count unsure where

sion, and DNA; we our babies' fin- he leaves off and also mimic gers and toes, and nature begins.

each other in rage, examine their He will become spines for the hint nothing.

of an atavistic

tail. But there is no escaping nature.

It's in us, it's on us, resisting every C> f we ceased to try to separate ourselves from in . we might lose something that

makes us human. now that some have well as tools and The apes learned to speak reasoning. Apes even

have always been in sign language, we have a concept perceived as discover that of self (they think they degenerate crea- the chimps and other are humans).

tures, a failed apes can cheat Every effort to distin-

human prototype and twist the truth. But guish ourselves

filled with the humans are much from our primate appetites and attrib- better at these things, cousins only utes deemed Cicero notwith- underscores our

least desirable in standing, no one can similarities.

human form. match us for vileness. But in the end, we

In recognizing man- The ages-old should have

kind's villainy, effort to determine no trouble telling a Cicero observed, "The what differentiates human from an ape, vilest of humans from ape: No chimp has

beasts, how like to other creatures has ever put a

us," The chim- generally been human in a cage.

panzee is capable an effort to And humans of waging war; separate humans are the ones with the from the apes. bullets and bombs, At one time language —Robert Bixby was seen as

the final human attri- bute no other creature could claim. But chimpanzees can use language, as FICTION BY ALLEN STEELE SEE A relic from the skies ROCK brings hot times to a CITY sleepy Tennessee farm.

JUfltOT pulls into the gravel parking lot

outside Doc's place and switches off the

headlights. He lets the engine run for a few

moments, listening to a Nashville country

music station as he savors a last toke from the joint he's been smoking since he crossed the De Kalb County line, then he switches off the ignition, stubs out the joint In the ashtray, opens the Camaro's mismatched door, and climbs out.

The night is hot, the air swollen with the kind of midsummer Tennessee humid- ity that brings out the cicadas and lightning bugs and causes men to dhnk long past midnight because they can't sleep. Junior pauses to tuck his sweaty white t-shirt down the front of his jeans and shake his legs a little to make the pants cuffs slide back down over the top of his cowboy boots. A silent flash of heat lightning on the horizon draws his eyes past the parking lot, out to the abandoned cornfield

ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS GALL behind the farmhouse where the his tithes and all that happy Sunday much as he misses his first grade of didn't spaceship squats upon its hydraulic school horseshit. "Hotter'n the devil," teacher; at least one them all. "Noth- landing gear, listing slightly to one side. he quickly adds. beat him up for no reason at Junior says, ignoring How- It's a moonless night and Doc has "Amen," says the other man seated ing much," turned off the floodlights surrounding at the counter, then he belches into his ell's hand. "Just laying around as the vessel, but Junior can see its hand. "'Scuse me." usual." jukebox," vague shape against the treeline, like a Doc chooses to ignore the blas- "Go put something on the giant Dairy Queen ice cream cone phemy, as Junior knew he would. Doc says as he opens an ice-cold

it in front of Ju- turned upside-down in the middle of a "Need a beer?" he asks as he lowers Michelob and places into coffee can and farm field. himself from his stool and begins to nior. He reaches a that been He spits a big hock on the ground, walk behind the counter. "We got plucks out a quarter has then the soles of his boots crunch Bud, Bud Light, Busch, Busch Light, painted red; he pushes it across the ." counter to Howell. "Anything but Billy softly against the gravel as he saunters Michelob . ,

sick of him I to the door. The front porch lights are "Michelob will do." Like he's picky Ray Cyrus ... I'm so spit up." off, the shades have been drawn, the about what he drinks; most of the time. could Howell stares at the store-quarter for little Pepsi Cola sign in the window has Junior settles for Black Label, which he before he gets the hint. "I'll been turned around so that it now can pick up for three bucks a six at the a moment says, reads "Sorry, We're CLOSED," but Ju- Piggly Wiggly in McMinnville. He only put on some Reba Mclntyre," he himself nior didn't drop out of the eighth grade buys Michelob when he's taking a girl picking up the coin and hauling Alan fifteen years ago before he learned not out to the drive-in and he's trying to im- off the stool. "Maybe some ." to believe everything he reads. The press her. Considering that he was in- Jackson . . that song of his," Junior door is unlocked; a tin cowbell jangles vited here because Doc wants him to "Play new

well says. "Play it twice. 1 kinda like it." He as he shoves it open and walks in. do a job, though, he might as neck Two men are seated at a lunch splurge. "Tonight's the night for Miche- grins and winks at Doc over the bottle. counter on the far end of the room, sil- lob," he adds, reciting something he of his beer houetted by the dim glow cast by the once heard on TV. Doc only shrugs. "Sit down, boy," fluorescent menu board he says softly as Howell away, cursing as above the kitchen grill. Be- wanders against a tween the door and the lunch JUNIOR'S FATHER, he stumbles counter are half a dozen ta- table and causes some t- fall on the unswept bles, piled chest-high with the JUNIOR SENIOR, HAS BEEN DEAD FOR ALMOST shirts to to detritus of Doo's livelihood for floor. "We've got a lot the past twenty months, two THREE YEARS. JUNIOR MISSES discuss." weeks, and six days: T-shirts, "About your rocket?" posters, keyrings, cheap ce- HIM ABOUT AS MUCH AS HE MISSES HIS FIRST- Junior hoists himself atop just ramic mugs made in Taiwan, the stool Howell has plastic replicas of the space- GRADE TEACHER; ONE OF vacated, "When you called ship custom-manufactured by me, you said you needed a a company in Athens, post- THEM DIDN'T BEAT HIM UP FOR NO REASON. job done on it." cards of women in bil

"Have yourself a set, boy. Take a load of Budweiser cans on the counter in ber . . . now."

off," front of the drunk. "You know Howell "Fuck the video," Junior says, "Howdy, Doo." Junior walks slowly here, of course," Doc says. "Howell, glancing over his shoulder at Howell. ." if hundred times already; . seen a past mounted dead squirrels holding this is Junior . He's miniature golf clubs and glass balls "Pleased to meet you." Howell besides, he knows the holographic which shower fake snow upon tiny swivels around on his stool to poke his screen on the jukebox is busted and fixed. replicas of the spaceship when you right hand at Junior. Howell looks as if Doc is too cheap to get the thing turn them over until he reaches the he hasn't had a sober night in twenty "Just play the song." In a few moments lunch counter. "Hot tonight." years: big, flabby body, unwashed the room is filled with slide guitars, Junior's "It's hot, all hght." black hair slicked back with too much drums, and twangy keyboards. "Hotter'n Jesus," Junior adds, and Brylcreem, deep creases in the skin at left knee begins to twitch in time with immediately regrets his choice of the back of his neck. "1 know your the music. He closes his eyes and words when Doc's face, a bit of weath- daddy, son. What's he doing these nods his head with the rhythm. Damn,

erbeaten buhap framed by long white days?" but he loves this tune . . . ." sideburns, turns stolid and cold. Doc's Junior's father, Junior Senior, has "My spaceship . , Doc says. right a good Chnstian: member of First Cal- been dead for almost three years. He Junior reopens his eyes. Yeah, forty vary Baptist, attends eight o'clock ser- passed away in St. Thomas Hospital in The rocket out in the back "Last "it vices each and every Sabbath, pays Nashville, Junior misses him about as time I looked at it," he says, seemed 62 OMNI ADVERTISEMENT like the paint's getting a little faded out. "And don't you be calling Howell slow. Kinda peeling around the top of the He and I have known each other since nose cone and all." . we were children , , we've gone LITANY OF When he bothers to wori<, Junior through some tough times together be- THE LONG SUN paints houses and barns. It's an honest fore and he's always stuck with me.

job, after ail, and it helps keep him in He's a good man." BY GENE WOLFE beer and dope when other work isn't Junior says nothing as he polishes Review by Andrew Wheeler available. "I can mix a little white and off the rest of his Michelob. He has gray, maybe get the shade you need to known some good men, too, but most Wolfe, best known for his best- make it look just right, and when that's of them are either dead or in jail. Being selling "Book of the New Sun" done I'll shellac with weatherproofing. a good man doesn't mean two shits in tetralogy, has for years been It'll last another couple of years before this old world; being quick is all that asked if there would be any more you need it painted again. How's that?" matters, and that's why Junior is still stories set in that universe. Well, Doc continues to peer across the drinking beer and getting laid on Satur- the first two books (Nightside the counter at him. "That's nice of you to day night when many good men are Long Sun and Lake of the Long offer," he replies, "but d'ya think I'd re- lying on their butts in a cold prison cell, Sun) of a new tetralogy have been ally ask to you to come all the way out waiting for tomorrow morning when here just to discuss a paint job?" they get to return to some godforsaken published, and the answer is yes No, Junior doesn't think he would. interstate median and pick up trash for and no. "The Book of the Long For the sort of work he does when he the state of Tennessee. Sun" is set in the city of Viron, on isn't housepainting, people meet him And if Doc and Howell are such a new and strange "Whorl," where late at night, when the lights are low good Christians, then why did they in- cities can be seen in the night sky and the only witnesses are crickets vite him out to their little piss-ant tourist and the titular Long Sun fills that and bullfrogs. Not that secrets can't be trap out on Route 52? sky by day. Astute readers will shared at high noon in the middle of "Talk to me about your rocket. Doc," immediately recognize this as a the Smithville town square—a whisper he says as he pushes his empty bottle cylindrica! generation starship, is still a whisper, any time of day—but across the counter. hes long since accepted the fact that but its inhabitants have only leg- ends of the "short most respectable people don't want to The fact of the matter is that there's not sun Whorl."

be seen with him. Even if Jesus has much Doc can tell Junior that he The young priest Patera Silk forgiven his sins, many people who live doesn't already know. Most of the story runs a manteion (temple) and around here would just as soon see is public knowledge already; almost school in a poor area. His major him return to the county workhouse. two years ago, it was on the front page ministry is to perform sa'crifices, Junior is about to answer when of every newspaper In the world, from though he rarely has anything Howell waddles back to the counter. "I Taiwan to Athens, plus most of the TV larger than a bird to offer. The put the song on, Junior," he brays, as stations. Nine major gods have not eager to please as a puppy begging The rocket parked out in Doc's corn- appeared in his Sacred Window for a IVlilk Bone. "Alan Jackson twice in field is a Delta Clipper, a single-stage- (or anywhere in Viron) for many a row, just like you said," to-orbit spacecraft designed and built Doc winces; Junior grins at his dis- by the McDonnell Douglas Space Sys- years. But all that is about to comfiture. "Go out back and check the tems Company of Huntington Beach, change. The little-known god, the dumpster, willya? I don't want the rac- California: no wings, no throwaway Outsider, sends him an epiphany, coons to go rooting through the trash boosters, nonmetallic epoxy-graphite warning that his manteion is in ." again . . fiber hull, low launch and recovery danger. The crimelord, Blood, has "I looked at it this evening. It's se- turnaround-time, minimal maintenance bought it for back taxes, and will ." cured nice and , . schedule, and all that other good shit. replace it with something more "Then look at it again," Doc says. About a hundred and thirty feet tall and profitable. Silk fights Blood's plans, "And take a leak while you're at weighing about twenty thousand but quickly finds himself involved it . . . something, I don't care. Just pounds, the Delta Clipper is almost the with the corrupt leave us alone a few minutes, okay?" same height (but half the tonnage) as local govern- Howell looks wounded; the puppy an old DC-8 jetliner and nearly as ver- ment, foreign spies, and, most has been kicked. He starts to argue satile: it goes up, achieves orbit, deliv- uneasily, the Nine, who are far with Doc—he's the co-owner of this op- ers its payload, re-enters the atmos- more human that he suspected. eration, he sold his pig farm and sank phere nose-first, then flops over and Wolfe's trademark dazzling his life's savings into that damn rocket, lands its tail on where it started, right inventiveness is in full force nere; doesn't that give him a say in this mat- on the dime with nine cents change. most notably in the setting. He's ter?—but one look from Junior shuts That's theory, at any rate. But this also provided a more accessible him up. He wanders away from the particular Delta Clipper had a turn of story than many of his other counter; a few moments later Junior bad luck.

novels; I never found myself hears the back screen door creak The ship is christened the U.S.S. wondering what was going on open and slam shut. Grissom—which is kinda ironic, con-

as I did with Free Live Free, for "Kinda slow, ain't he?" he murmurs. sidering it was named after some astro- Doc shakes his head as he glances naut who was killed trying to go to the example. Patera Silk is a man of over his shoulder to make sure that Moon, way back before Junior Senior faith, a rarity in recent SF, and I Howell has indeed stepped outside. perked the wrong girl and bequeathed was intrigued to see how his faith "No, but he might as well be, consider- Junior upon this lucky world—and it was tested. Litany of the Long Sun ing how much he drinks." His eyes are had the distinction of being the sole is available through The Science hard when his gaze returns to Junior. man-rated ship in the SSTO fleet. In- Fiction Book Club, on pp.52 and 53. — —

stead of being a pilotless cargo vessel, tion that the Grissom, albeit still intact, behalf. Even before government offi-

it was flown by two pilots; its midsec- had somehow been knocked danger- cials showed up at his farm, Doc had tion contained a pressurized passen- ously off course; NORAD radar showed set up sawhorses in front of the gate ger module. Two years ago last that the vessel was somewhere over leading to the back forty and was August, the Grissom had rendez- the southeastern United States, with a charging people five bucks a head to voused in orbit with Freedom Station. It new trajectory that would bring it down take a close peek at the spaceship that had been a routine crew-relief mis- somewhere in the South. incinerated ten acres of cornfield. sion—besides the pilot and cc-pilot on Although the JSC controllers could When the suits from NASA and FAA the flight deck, there were three other raise neither the crew nor the passen- and DOD and all the rest had arrived, astronauts aboard, taking a ride back gers, they still had an uplink with the Doc graciously allowed them to come to Merritt Island from the space sta- Grissom's navigational computers, and into his field for free. After the bodies of tion— until something had gone seri- even if the Grissom could not be de- the two pilots were removed from the ously wrong during re-entry stroyed by radio signal—as a man- flight deck and the three passengers,

Exactly what, nobody really knew at rated spacecraft, it was not equipped unconscious but still alive, were rushed the time. Just as the Grissom was com- with an auto-destruct mechanism away in ambulances, Doc put his foot mencing its aerobraking maneuver they were capable of overriding the down. His property, his rocket: no one, over the Atlantic coast, flight controllers ship's manual control and remote- but no one—not TV camera crews, not at the Johnson Space Center in Texas piloting the vessel to an emergency local reporters, not his Baptist minister, heard a sharp bang over the comlink, landing, preferably in a remotely popu- not local residents nor their children then the pilot shouted something about lated area, nor their dogs—got through the gate loss of cabin pressure. Before anyone And so they did. And that's how, without putting five dollars in the kitty. at JSC could react, the Delta Clipper early one morning in mid-August, a Even as Doc was bickering with two entered Earth's upper atmosphere, spaceship crash-landed in the middle NASA men and a U.S. federal marshal after which there was the loss of signal of Doc's cornfield. in his living room, a slick lawyer from which occurs when a spacecraft is None of this had meant jack shit to Dallas who specialized in space law passing through the ionization layer, Junior, who had been serving time in there actually is such a thing—called

LOS usually ends after nine min- the workhouse, but it had been a god- on the phone to offer his services. utes, but this time twelve minutes send to Doc, whose corn crop had Once the lawyer was cut in on a per- elapsed before the JSC controllers been scorched by two straight years of centage of any money Doc might reacquired telemetry with the Grissom, drought and who was looking for any- make, he informed Doo of his rights. only to be met with stark silence from damn-way of paying off his debts that On one hand, under the U.N. Agree- the other end of the radio channel. By didn't mean waiting for Willie Nelson to ment on the Rescue of Astronauts, the then they had come to the cold realiza- throw a benefit concert on his personal Return of Astronauts, and the Return of GREAT MOMENTS N

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Objects Launched into Outer Space, spacecraft accidentally encountered a done with it. Doc was legally impelled to surrender Perseid meteor shower This was what Once NASA inspectors completed the Grissom and its crew to the authori- had caused the explosive decompres- their investigation, an engineering team

ties. However, under Article II of the sion which had killed the pilots and from McDonnell Douglas stripped the Convention on International Liability for knocked the vessel off course; the pas- vessel of any reusable components; Damage Caused by Space Object, the sengers had survived because their when they were through with the Gris- United States government had to com- module was isolated from the flight som, the SSTO was not much more pensate him for the loss of his corn- deck and had its own Independent than an empty hull. But that was okay field. oxygen supply. It was no small miracle with Doc, who by now had gone into What all this meant, the Texas attor- that the Grissom had survived re-entry the tourist trade; attracted by scream-

ney toid him, was that Doc had already and had landed safely, but it would ing headlines and breathless TV news cooperated with the government by al- never fly again on its own power, nor reports, people were driving from ail lowing them to enter the spacecraft could a spacecraft the size of the Gris- over the country to his farm, willing to and take away the dead and injured som be easily hauled away by either pay their five bucks for a chance to astronauts. Until NASA found a way to truck or helicopter. For the time being, gawk and take snapshots of the space- haul away the Grissom and the govern- it was permanently grounded in the ship in De Kalb County Tennessee. ment ponied up the money though, the middle of Doc's cornfield. spacecraft rightfully belonged to him. The government didn't want to han- "I can't rightly complain," Doc says as Not that the Grissom was going to dle a messy civil lawsuit; the circum- he opens another Michelob and fly away any time real soon; its fuel stances of the crash were embarrass- pushes it across the counter to Junior. tanks had been depleted by the emer- ing enough already. Nor did NASA "Business was pretty good for awhile. gency landing and its aft landing gear want to foot the bill for salvaging a use- Howell came in as a partner and leg less, had fractured during touchdown. unflyable spaceship from some- helped me run things. I moved every- Only luck had kept the spacecraft from where in Tennessee. And nobody thing upstairs and turned this part of going up in smoke itself during the wanted to pay for Doc's ruined farm- the house into a shop. We put in the cornfield fire; the flame retardant which land. After a few weeks, therefore, Jus- lunch counter, ordered up a bunch of T- coated its hull had been seriously tice Department attorneys reached an shirts and ashtrays and stuff ... no,

eroded during its prolonged re-entry out-of-court compromise with the sir, I can't complain."

Not only that, but when NASA inspec- farmer: if Doc agreed not to sue NASA Junior is only half-interested; three tors combed the spacecraft, they for the loss of his fields and if he con- beers and he's got a pretty good buzz found three small holes in the flight tinued to cooperate with the crash in- going, yet he's getting a bit impatient. deck, caused by micrometeors which vestigation, then Doc could keep what He knows what the Doc wants, but the had struck the Grissom when the was left of the Grissom after NASA was old man is rambling, working up his CONTINUED ON PAGE 74 RS iruTERV/ieuu study the mind's orientation to a brand new world. Wtien I speak to scientific groups, my discussions are I taped and passed around. They enjoy them, but ttiose who are strong in their various studies don't know much

STORY MUSGRAVE about the space world and human adaptation to it. For

now, I am a pioneer." And a human guinea pig. Floating "Space travel came to as a me around various space shuttles. NASA's Story Musgrave calling, an epiphany. I have no plans not to do it has the kind of physical, emotional, and philosophical ex- " You don't lay callings down. periences people on Earth cannot duplicate even with ille-

gal chemical recreation. So what is he really doing up PHOTOGRAPHS there? And why does he come back down at all? BY DAVID MICHAEL KENNEDY Musgrave has been called the astronaut's astronajt.

One of the few career astronauts, he is also a ch>s"can. philosopher, poet, pilot, skydiver, gardener, and perennial student. He is Hearing completion of a masters in philoso- phy, which will be his seventh advanced degree, ranging from literature to computer science. Intense and driven at 58, he

He notes his every thought in his sometimes wonders if he'd lose his

journals and in the margins of the inner fire if he ever completely let go thousands of books in his library. of the pain of his childhood. Born After receiving his M.D. from Franklin Story Musgrave, raised in an Columbia University in 1964, Mus- emotionally troubled family on a grave joined NASA in 1967, with 1,000-acre dairy farm in western

dreams of going to Mars in the near Massachusetts, he still reels from the future as the mission's physician. family discord. At age three, he be- Even as Mars receded as a real came keenly aware that all was not spacetrip, he threw himself into nu- well at home and sought escape in merous technical assignments, help- the forests surrounding the farm, in

ing to design and develop all of the lying on his back there at night and shuttle's extravehicular activity (EVA) gazing at the stars. As an adult, na-

equipment and spacesuits, In AphI, ture is still his best friend, and he has smci mmss 1983, after 16 years in the agency, found escape in space, in looking Second oldest man he went Into orbit on the Challenger's there for answers to the human con- of the universe. in space; oldest to spacewalk; maiden voyage. He was 48. By 58, dition and the secrets shuttle five shuttle flights he'd been up five times. "I was a In doing so he turns each mis- long-term investor," he explains. sion into the deeply personal self-ex-

most mmm mmm In December 1993, as payload periment of a man facing a truly Endeavor's mission to commander on the Endeavor's mis- unfamiliar nature.—Nina L Diamond repair Hubble Space Telescope, sion to repair the Hubble Space Tele- December 1993 scope— with responsibility for Omni: Why is lift-off a turn off?

coordinating the entire spaoewalking Musgrave: If Scottie could beam me

fix-it extravaganza—he took that fifth up there, I'd be beamed up. When and most important flight. With enor- the solids [fuels] light, it's an explo- The South Paojfic mous pressure on NASA, the Hubble sion. The solids knock you upstream. was considered a make or break The seats shake. Feeling the vibra-

mission for the agency. "It may have tions and sound pressure of 137 been the most well-rehearsed mis- decibels, you're worrying about go ovei beTiiit y^u unase it and sion," remarks Musgrave, "since the structural integrity, all the pieces say That s me, shorily first moon walk." Musgrave's method- holding in there, when you'd rather You watch It after you ve been ological preparation, attention to de- just enjoy the ride. It's not a steady there, and say, tail, and imagination have made him push but a pound, and it hits you.

That was me, what I was doing.'" so valuable NASA built the Hubble There's turbulence when you pass highest wind WlSHUSft crew around him. through the point of After the highly successful repair shear, around 35,000-37,000 feet. To goto Mars; to live in it's painful, not physically mission. I met Musgrave in Baltimore, But not space; to be where he and the rest of the En- punishing—it's shake, rattle, and roll. contacted by other life forms deavor crew came to talk and cele- But for me it's fear. You slowly build Qm imntimum urn brate with the staff of the Hubble to three g's, so the force between Space Telescope Science Institute. you and your seat is three times your

"Story is one of the more unique peo- weight. It feels like you're being There are living ple in the astronaut's office," Dick shoved back into your seat. Every- creatures far more developed as Covey, the Hubble mission comman- thing's heavy. Then when the en- civilizationsThey'vg der told me. "He's never stopped gines shut off you go from three g's been around for 100 million years, — and because of that has a to nothing. and we cant learning, different perspective on many things Omni: You weren't a flight engi- even conceive how advanced from some of us who are stuck where neer this time, so what did you do they are and the we have been for years. He always when the engines shut down? kinds of things they're doing. That's adds a different element to every en- Musgrave: 1 closed my eyes. Your why I make an effort terprise we undertake." eyes say, I'm floating within this to communicate, and might be "He has a rare insight into what room, so if you shut them before they considered eccentric space exploration means in human can overwhelm the other physiologi-

because I do, because I know the history and what the future could be," cal systems, your entire body's telling probabilities are added JoAnn Morgan, who was di- you, I'm in free fall! it's like stepping close to zero. But 1 do tell them to rector of payload projects manage- off a high dive. You and the orbiter come down and ment at Kennedy Space Center are in free fall toward Earth, It's not a get me. And if they came for me, during the Hubble mission and is float, and nothing's resisting your free unconditionally, I'd go. now a division director at the Center. fall, so there's this apparent floating, CONTINUED ON PAGE 76 On the 125th Aniiiversan-

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' Physicist Bruce Maccabee has r experts who could comment on

been one of the leading lights - -> the case, and I felt nothing ven- of - UFOIogy for more than a ^IJI^ tured, nothing gained." decade. Back in 1979, he " His next contact with the CIA helped establish the Fund for ; came in 1984 via intelligence offi- UFO Research, known for its k cer Ronald Pandolfi, who was in- protests over what it has said is ^ terested in Maccabee's work for a government cover-up of the Navy. But in the course of UFOs. But ^ now Maccabee j -. their professional relationship, faces charges from within the ,_\ Maccabee and Pandolfi also dis- UFO community he has helped / . '( .cussed UFOs. So after the Mutual to build. According to 12-page / ''- a f UFO Network held its conference

paper issued by the so-called i in Washington, DC, in 1987, Pan- Associate Investigators Group, , dolfi asked Maccabee to present Maccabee has holding -» ...>' been a Iunchtime talk on UFOs to CIA secret meetings with the CIA. employees. Maccabee surprised The paper, sarcastically titled ,. 'everyone by talking about UFO "The Fund for CIA Research?" ** documents which the CIA itself claims that "Maccabee first ap- had released. "The employees proached the CIA in 1979" to were apparently unfamiliar with discuss UFOs and has contin- these papers," says Maccabee, ued briefing the organization "and afterward, some people even ever since. The report also states that 'Maccabee's tried to find more CIA UFO documents on their own." public support" for some highly controveisial cases Maccabee's most recent talk at the CIA took might have been encouraged intelligence by con- place last year, in May of 1993, two months after re- tacts who wanted to use him as a mole. According signing as chairman of the Fund for UFO Research. to W. Todd Zechel, an author of ttie paper and one The resignation, Maccabee adds, had nothing to do of the people to get the CIA to release UFO docu- with the CIA; he'd simply moved out of town. ments back in 1979, Maccabee has shown "a lack Maccabee's relationship with the CIA is likely to of judgment." His relationship with the CIA repre- persist. "Bruce has been a fhend for quite a few sents "a conflict of interest," Zechel declares. 'The years," states Pandolfi. "The brown-bag luncheon public has been misled," he says. meetings are popular with the staff." But Maccabee insists he's done nothing wrong. As for colleagues at the Fund for UFO Research, "My contacts with the agency have been informal they have long accepted Maccabee's relationship iunchtime lectures for employees. Besides, the CIA with the CIA. "We were hungry for official informa- people I've talked to tend to be skeptical about the tion and took Bruce's word that he was in control of whole thing." the situation," states Larry W. Bryant, a former mem- According to Maccabee, his relationship with the ber of the Fund's executive committee. "I don't think spy group began in 1979 when he was asked to Maccabee ever jeopardized that trust." brief the CIA on some highly publicized sightings The relationship, Maccabee contends, has from New Zealand three months before. "I was a lit- yielded fruit. 'These contacts managed to help me tle leery," recalls Maccabee. "They were the bad get translations of Soviet newspaper articles," he guys; they had just released a thousand pages on notes. But the enlightening part has been this; "I UFOs after claiming for years they had no informa- have yet to run into anybody who knows a heck of a tion at all. But I figured they would have technical lot more about UFOs than I do"—PATRICK HUYGHE AaiTinnATTeR

SRANITE AT eOtDEN GATE

A bullet-shaped piece of granite, some four feet

tall and three feet wide, was inadvertently deposit- ed in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park four years back by a crane operator. Major annoyance, right? Not to New Age and Hindu devotees, who began to flock to the boulder in droves. But don't look for the giant rock in the park today. This past January, the holy bau- ble was moved to the studio of Baba Kali Das, born Michael Bowen, the co-founder of the New Age Visionary Art Movement. MOBY TURTLE ing," says Georgine fact, he thinks the According to Kali Das, Cooper, a town trustee. turtle may be an alligator he discovered the Move over Nessie. "The turtle was said snapper released into giant stone In 1989 during Recent reports tell of a to be anywhere from the the lake some years ago a walk across the park giant killer turtle liv- size of a small pickup by a local boy "Alli- from his Ashram Art Stu- ing in Island Lake, lllinoi truck to an 1 8-wheel semi." gator snappers," he says, dio, culminating what some 40 miles north- - "Our Water Depart- "can grow to more than he says was a "seven- west of Chicago. ment supervisor, Neil 60 pounds and can be 25 year search" for a monument to the Lord Shiva. Realizing the THE GIANT TURTLE, REFERRED TO AS A MAN-EATING stone was a "Shiva linga," two large snapping TERROR, HAS GENERATED NATIONAL he began leaving turtles mating in the w TABLOID HEADLINES AND HAS EVEN BEEN PROFILEE offerings. "I knew that "|=t beyond her back- ON LOCAL CHICAGO NEWS STATIONS. ' Jl. "These rancisco lOeiC, LUCK, Oft i PIIE€0©NmOM •' right 45 or more times Chronicle helped to attract | out of 58 just accii the devoted and the Every so often, a ly," Kapadia says curious in greater numbers psychic prediction comes 'This reinforces tl than ever before, true. But is it true pre- native hypothesis "We soon had reports of that something otf incense and open can- cognition or just plain log- ic and luck? According chance is at play' , dle flames that posed a fire to Houston-based psychic Critics aren't so sure. J I to nearby foliage," Sean Harribance (at John Palmer, seni{ says Jacl< Immendorf, Rec- right), his evidence helps reation and Parks Com- rule out the more Foundation for R mission president. Then, mundane, nonpsychic search on the Na ever increasing media alternatives. Man in Durham, :: coverage, including an ar- te'ia&iFa nrnve this nnint North Carolina, o ticle in the New York jance, longtime Kapadia, a Houston compilation "impr;i Times, brought curious a biometry expert, applied sive" but says th»a mobs, panhandlers, rch subject for the late great parapsy- a worst-case scenario: needs "a lot of addi- '.,3 and vandals to the site of chologist J. B. Rhine, assigning a one-chance- tional work' to demon- Jl the stone as well. - compiled his forecasts in-two value to each strata psi. And crif That's why this past published prediction and assuming James Randi sa^l January, Immendorf in the me- dia from 1 986 through that half the predictions "using past, and :> offered the stone to Kali '' 1991. Out of 256 pre- could be correct by potentially biased, data Das on the national dictions that could be ver- chance alone. She then is no way to test television show A Current ified, they counted 233 picked the 58 most predictions. It's ajf ' Affair. Kali Das accepted as right and 23 as wrong. detailed predictions with- experiment." | and brought the rock to his The next step, notes out regard to their suc- Harribance coat art studio, which serves Harribance, was mea- cess. Of those, Kapadia "This is better than as a base for practitioners 1 suring each forecast's deemed 45 correct and a laboratory experiment. of devotional yoga as J probability in mathemati- 1 3 incorrect. Everything is in pr| well as artists. cal terms. To help "Using a statistical mod- or on tape. You Ci In its new setting, Harribance there, Asha el there is one chance cheat."—Craig P^ the stone's draw is appar-

ently undiminished. It's spoke for the entire Hindu not the site; it's the stone," "PEOPLE COME community" Immendorf says Kali Das. "People HERE LIKE ANT STREAMS, says. "We didn't mean to

are coming here like ant AND THE PSYCHIC offend anyone. I hope " streams, and the psy- FNFcnv 1=; intfisi.<;f they can get together and

chic energy is intense." enshrine it at a mutually Geno Valle, a San convenient place."

Francisco hair designer clients increased and I Kali Das, who has who practices devo- made a lot more money" heard no objections, sajfs tional yoga at the stone, One small problem: "the stone's slaying agrees. "The stone's Some Hindus have con- right here." ForiidDnna-

energy is always with me," tacted Immendorf to tion about the stale's

he says. "As soon as I protest the stone's remov- current locatioa. cal |41S$ began my devotions, my al. "We thought Das 560-4002.—AnOa Basion the company would repaint their barns "Never met the man," Junior replies, SEE ROCK for 'em and put up their advertisements but he can't keep the grin off his face. it "Did the insurance company settle with CONTINUED FROM PAGE 65 where no one could miss seeing from the road, and in return the farmers him okay?" nerve to ask. would get their barns painted for free." "Ear! did well with his insurance thought it peculiar that "Well, y'know, everything's gotta "I guess." Junior begins to wonder if company. They barn come to an end sometime." Doc pulls a that's what Doc has in mind: hiring him someone would want to torch his ." paper napkin out of a dispenser and to paint "See Doc's Rocket" on barn for no apparent reason, but . . Doc shrugs. "Well, Earl got his money and absently whisks it across the marble- roofs all over the state. Junior hopes wife tone formica, wiping up the round that isn't the case; he really hates he's using it to move him and his

"1 "1 Florida next month," stains left by the beer bottles. guess painting barns. ain't seen many like down to everyone who really wants to see that that lately." "I'd say he got off lucky." thing has come and gone already. I'm Doc raises his eyes from the napkin "I'd reckon he did," Doc pauses. told to say hello to you, next in my second summer of running this to look straight at him again. "Why do "He me

I that's I guess place, and there's been too many days you think that is? Rook City's still there. time saw you ... but of since you say you never lately when Howell has sat out by the You can visit it anytime . . . see four kind stupid, gate and hasn't collected a dime." states, check out Mother Goose Vil- met the man," ." yourself a birdhouse and a "1 suppose so." Junior is still grin- "Yeah, uh-huh . . lage, buy

1 in pecan pie. Rock City is still in business, ning, "Like 1 said, ain't been "Meanwhile, I still owe the bank money and the bills ain't getting any but you just don't see too many of Lebanon in months." haven't smaller. Plus the percentage of the take those black and red barns anymore. "Guess noL And you been insur- why do you think that is, son?" out here for awhile, have you?" I gotta send that lawyer. And the So

I Junior Junior hates it when someone calls "Naw, ain't been here," ance . . . that's the worst. Premiums the rest of his beer and wipes just keep getting higher and higher, him son; it reminds him of his drunk old drains his the back of his hand. and I'm not getting anything for it." man. The night isn't getting any mouth with

. . . Junior knows about insurance. younger; he could be home in his "Fact is, I was in Nashville tonight That's part of his line of work. went in to catch that new Arnold Schwarzenegger "It's a bitch, all right," he says. movie. Ain't that hght?" "Damn insurance compa- A WHISPER IS Doo doesn't reply. He nies . . . just keep getting picks up the three Miche- richer all the time." STILL A WHISPER, ANY TIME OF DAY, lob bottles and carries "Sometimes i wish that rocket never landed here," BUT HE'S LONG them out to the back door. Doc sighs and looks around Junior hears the screen the store, "Never believed in SINCE ACCEPTED THE FACT THAT MOST door swing open and slam the damn space program shut; while he waits for Doc to return, he pulls another anyway . . . waste of time RESPECTABLE PEOPLE paper napkin out of the and money, if you ask me. BE SEEN WITH HIM. dispenser, dabs one end in Now I got a houseful of space DON'T WANT TO a small puddle of water stuff I can't sell and a space- ship out back that no one Doc missed a few minutes wants to see." trailer now, watching an old Star Trek ago. and uses it to wipe down every getting wasted. 'I inch of the counter where he has been "Yeah, uh-huh . . . kind of wish rerun on TV and sitting, napkin goes in his back something would happen to it, don't ya?" don't know why, dad," he says with The Doc doesn't reply. Lost in his scornful impudence. "Maybe no one pocket; after that, he is careful not to thoughts, he toys with the damp nap- wants to see Rock City anymore." touch anything in the store. kin, absently tearing off thin, narrow Doc slowly nods his head. "Or There's some things they just don't pieces and crumpling them Into little maybe all those old barns burned teach a kid in the eighth grade. spitwads. "You ever been to Rock City, down," he says very softly. When Doc comes back, he's got thick roll son?" he asks after a little while. Junior smiles. Howell with him. Howell has a Junior shrugs. Maybe' he has, Doo nods again as he looks down of money in his pocket: five hundred maybe he hasn't; when he goes some- at the paper napkin. "These things dollars, split into twenties and fifties. where for fun, he's usually stoned on happen sometimes." he murmurs as he Junior makes him count it out on the he's finished count- something and doesn't remember it makes another spitball. "Accidents, formica, and when very well afterwards. "That's up on weird freak things, stuff like ing Junior picks up the cash and

it into a front pocket of his Lookout Mountain outside Chat- that . , . lots cf stuff can happen on a shoves tanooga, ain't it? Big ol' place." farm, nobody ever knows when," jeans. "Big or place, that's hght." Doc con- "Sure does." Junior takes a long, "Well, good night, then," he says as tinues to strip the paper napkin as he slow sip from his beer. "Someone down he stands up from the stool. "I think it's speaks. "You probably don't remember, in Lebanon, his barn went up one night way past y'all's bedtime, don't you being a young man and all, but there just like that." He snaps his fingers. think?" star- was a time when half the barns in Ten- "Boom, just like a bomb. Burned to the Neither man answers. Both are nessee had black roofs with 'See Rock ground in a couple of minutes. Total ing at the floor, each looking as stupid hick farm- City' painted in big red letters across loss." He shakes his head. "Crying as only a couple of dumbass them. See, the company which owned shame." ers can look. Ex-farmers, rather; Howell and operated Rock City would go to "1 know," Doc says. "That barn be- is as thick as the pigs he used to slop, at har- farmers whose barns were facing the longed to a friend of mine . . . Earl and Doc was never that good vesting corn. They should have I him." highways and make 'em a deal . . , Walker. believe you know 74 OMNI —

learned a real money-making ski!!, like On an EVA. your helmet is fairly

if don't think about Junior did. imTERVieiAJ panoramic. But you Junior shoulders open the front door CONTINUED FROM PAGE 68 having these experiences they won't and walks to his car. He drives out of happen to you. At the last astronaut re- "Story, the parking lot and spends the next In the past, to create a fall I'd close union, someone said, you know

I I three couple cf hours cruising the back my eyes before going to sleep^since I something really regret? had roads where the county sheriff never sleep floating—and imagine mountains space flights and never saw the stars." dark- I Earth, goes. He finishes the joint that was left and myself stepping off. The second On a night pass over we in our cf time, and in the ashtray and listens to country step off, my physiology tells me I'm adapted eyes ahead went down we I the music on the radio, savoring the warm free fall. The first time I did it was so the second sun off. cut I turned all the lights At 370 miles summer breeze and the feel cf money scared. I mean it was not nice. Then [the farthest-out shuttle flight to date], in his pocket, and when the night is at did it again and appreciated It, You can the whole United States, Las its darkest and a cool mist is beginning fall forever, and it is one of the most de- we saw is the brightest place on Earth. to rise above the tall grass, he swings licious things. But most people have Vegas see it from Mars? back toward Doc's place, where all the never had this in space because un- Omni: Gould you Yeah, they're probably lights have now been extinguished and less you evoke it, it won't happen. You Musgrave: and like is looking. Earth looks like it should: nothing is moving. can also create illusions, "where jun- Driving another quarter-mile down the down?" In this room now, gravity is deserts are brown, oceans blue, cities and inter- the road past the rocket farm, Junior going down to the floor. In space, you gles green. We saw miles. While finds an old tractor-path off the high- shouldn't have a down in any direction. states at 2,000 to 3,000 incredible au- way where he can stash his car without But most people tend to carry the floor over Florida we saw an they've trained for rora over Canada—the whole North it being spotted from the road. The around because with auroras. This path is nice and dry, so there's no real hundreds of hours and the simulators Pole was covered were doing a spaoewalk! danger of leaving tire tracks in the dirt, and shuttle have lights on the ceiling was while we Mediterranean, Sicily, and everything he needs is stashed in and walking surfaces on the floor. We saw the pyra- the trunk: a pair of old rubber rain You can aim any way you want. You Rome, Athens, then Cairo, the Nile run down. It's all boots, some latex dishwashing gloves, can have the cargo bay, the belly, or mids. We saw the look at the Him- and two five-gallon gasoline cans. He the nose toward Earth. Since there's no lit up. It's marvelous to

I meteorite switches his cowboy boots for the ga- down, you can move your g-vectors alayas as sculpture. got a loshes and pulls on the gloves, then through some wall that's not there. The on video. Since the atmosphere's un- picks up the gas cans. body has always had a g-vector and derneath, shooting stars go under- I'm working on ways of Wsy off across the abandoned field, wants to snap onto one, so it's easy to neath you. the U.S.S. Grissom rises above the evoke one. You can stand on a side capturing comets, but most of my php- withered remains of corn stalks. The wall, pretend you're walking on the tography is of Earth. My favorite place stars are out tonight; constellations Ju- floor, and evoke that you might fall on is the South Pacific from space. You nior can't name shimmer In the moist your nose. I've come down on Earth see the coral, the sea, mountains com- clean out of the water, the different midnight heat. Humming his favorite and, imagining I was in space, tipped ing greens, country music hit, Junior begins to places over. Space taught me how to blues, the expanse, the ocean clouds. wade through the tall wild grass, the think this way. The world had never the particular gas cans gently bouncing against his thought about the g-veotor, or that Omni: What do you take up there? Musgrave: IVe flown dinosaur bones, a knees. moving it from down changes percep- reality million-year-old fossil, a piece of If he gets through with this job soon, tion of the environment. Virtual 350

I get a of maybe he'll get home in time to catch machines will be able to do this. Stonehenge. want to piece explorer re- the end of Star Trek.OO Omni: What inexplicable things have the iceman, that ancient you seen out there? cently discovered, and then return that Musgrave: I've seen Mir go by within 28 piece to the Iceman. I've flown a book CREDITS miles; other satellites and you don't cf John Dewey's on education, a cover

are, just to the book Art as Experience. I flew a Page 2, top left: Dan McCoy; page 2, top know what they but maybe right: Chris Gail; page 2, bottom; James Bai- space debns. All kinds of debris come Hot Wheels car and a little bulldozer for log; page 4: Rosemary Webber; page 8: off space ships, especially at the back my six-year-old son. Lane. Rob Brooks/Renard Represents; page 12: after the main engines shut down Omni: Describe sleeping. Darryl Zudek; page 14: ivlel Oden; page 16: end

Mark Tauss; page 18: Sherman Mines; page and you open the doors: ice chips, Musgrave: I usually sleep floating. This 20: Dale O'Deil/The Stock Market; page 23: oxygen or hydrogen, stuff dumped time I slept in the airlock with four EVA Daniel Aubry; page 24: Daniel Riberzani; from the engines. On two flights I've suits. They looked like people with their page 25, top right: Prof. R Motta/Photo Re- they'd grab I call legs, and searchers; page 25, bottom left: Stuart Mc- seen and photographed what own arms and

Clymont/Tony Stone Worldwide; page 26: "the snake," like a seven-foot eel swim- onto me. As I'd float along, I could Chip Simons/FPG; page 28, top: Margarette rest ming out there. It may be an uncritical snuggle up inside the arms and Mead/The Image Bank; page 28, bottom: In- from the main engines. In there. I'd hug the suits, and they'd hug stitute of Human Origins; page 31. from top rubber seal their to bottom: Dr. Mark Carlotto; Manfred zero g it's totally free to maneuver, and me. Because they've got own Kage/Peter Arnold; Manfred Kage/Peter their memory. it has its own infernal waves like it's neutral point, they've got Arnold; Dr. Mark Carlotto; U.S. Geological swimming. All this debris is white, re- Two of them might be grabbing you at Survey/Photo Researchers; page 32: U.S. Geological Survey/Photo Researchers; page flecting sunlight, or you don't see it. once. If you get into a sleeping bag, 71: Cathrin Karnow; page 72: Bill Ivy/Tony Cruising along with you at your velocity, that determines where down is. You Stone Worldwide; page 73, top: Art & Editor- pillow it's still got its own rotation. At zero g, can strap your head onto the ial Resources; page 73, bottom: Francis incredible freedom. It's there's less contact in a bag than In Ciemente; page 88, from left to hght: John things have an Stuart/Image Bank; Joseph Drivas/lmage an extraordinary ballet. bed. Few people like to freeflcat, and Bank; Jake Bank; Barros & Barros/lmage From space, the stars are bhghter most want a sleeping bag. I have Rajs/Image Bank, and you see the entire celestial sphere. freeflcated while sleeping and actually

76 OMNI gone up into the flight decl<, down into symbolizes the power to look far the mid-deck, and around. You bounce enough to find out what life means here mmm lightly off other sleeping peopie. Even if on Earth. So to have a spherical abber- your face contacts the wall, it's so light ation on the mirror of such an instru- you tend not to wake up. ment, well, there's no question that Omni: Have we studied sex in space? NASA put a huge emphasis on fixing TALK BACK! Musgrave: I doubt it, and have no infor- that abberation, which should never mation about whether there's been any. have been there. And you extrapolate,

Omni: The logistics of it, in zero g, from a promise to do these repairs 1-900-285-5483 would be difficult, spacewalking to the spacewalking re- (950 per minute) Musgrave: That's not a problem, that's quired to assemble a space station. an opportunity. I'd love to go back to Hubble In We at Omni: How did the Hubble mission test 1997. That's my baby. Except for the you most? Wide Field and Planetary Camera, Omni have always been Musgrave: Probably my ability to attack which we replaced with the state-of- in tine forefront of details, and tc imagine things. In the the-art Instrument, the other instru- promoting innovation and EVA world we dc not have a single sim- ments are a decade old or more. The imagination. ulator, but several. We have water to Hubble was designed to have its in- give us reach, access, and visibility struments replaced, and we have two Now we bring you the latest similar to that in a space walk; a clean new instruments coming down the line. breakthrough in room where you put flight tools onto the Omni: While training for Hubble in interactive publishing: real flight instruments. We have the air- 1993, you were the first NASA astro- bearing floor to test how large objects naut to suffer from frostbite. THE OMNI EOITOR LINE will respond in zero g. It's like being on Musgrave: Yes. Being in a suit for 12 ice, on a skateboard. We can move a hours in a vacuum chamber is a real a direct link 600-pound object, a phone booth like hell-hole. But after my frostbite, we put to our editorial staff, offers the Wide Field and Planetary Camera, more insulation in the glove and took you the opportunity and it's ounces to get it moving with the water coolant out of the arms. So your fingertips. We wear E'VA suits on when we went up and were cut there to truly participate in the the air-bearing floor and in the thermal for five days, not one person ever had shaping of Omni. vacuum chamber where you go for a cool hand. hours in real flight environments. You Omni: Can you do surgery now? Call the exercise the real suit you're going to fly, Musgrave: No. My fingertips are not OMNI EDITOR LINE.'and and put your tools through their paces healing as fast as I expected, but will at those temperatures. You have alti- they'll end up fairly close to normal. you be asked tude chamber runs where you take Omni: Did Hubble employ virtual reality to leave a message for our your flight suit to a vacuum, depressur- for test and verification? Editors, or you can ize, and air lock just like in space. You Musgrave: Yes, VR helped establish exercise your actual suit and back- what positions the remote arm could listen to messages left by pack. 1 brought in an imagination to assume to support our work during other readers. pull those worlds together. No one of if it's to space walks. But going replace We want to hear from you them is what it will be like in flight. simulations we do, like in the water whether it concerns Omni: What was the most critical ma- tank, VR must represent an anthropo- neuver in the Hubble mission? metric suit relationship and turn that a specific article or feature

Musgrave: think it into Many was moving a single organism. That's the real in a current the Wide Field and Planetary Camera challenge, I'd like to send a virtual real- issue of Omni or if it's mirror, because if you mistakenly ity machine to the planets for openers. touched the mirror, what you left would We'd not only get the scientific stuff, about our be on every single image that comes but the robots would send back reality magazine in general. down forever from the most powerful similar to what humans see. camera on Earth. I researched that op- Omni: What are your thoughts on the The OMNI EDITOR LINE eration hundreds of times. A detail only Mars mission now? is here to make sure the imagination could take care of is Musgrave: I don't know when, but it's the workstation on your chest carrying gonna happen. So will other solar-sys- that you have an opportunity to all your tools, hooks, and tethers. In the tem outposts—once you've developed become a part of the clean room or water tank that stuff all the technology to mine the moon, use future of the magazine of the hangs straight down. In zero g it'll hang solar energy, take the materials there, straight out and get on the mirror. and turn them into structural materials. future. We hope Omni: Was the Endeavor flight a make Mass transfer of material from Earth is to hear from you soon. or break mission for NASA'' a hugely expensive enterprise.

Musgrave: People in the media and Omni: Would you be surprised if you within NASA said this mission would were contacted by intelligent life from 1-900-285-5483 define if there is a NASA. Some of it elsewhere in the universe? (950 per minute) made sense, Anything that powerful Musgrave: Only because of the proba- PET INC., BOX 166 tends to bhdge the gap between cos- bilities intelligent life is out there! — We HOLLIWOOD, CALIFORNIA 90078 mology, theology, and philosophy, the have billion stars in a hundred our Must be 18 or older. "what is our place in the universe?" galaxy, and there are billions of galax- Touch-tone phones only. Hubble touches people because it ies. The Hubble will find a planet out- side our solar system that will revise 50, and of those who get sick, some treadmills, You get into an airplane and our thinking about our place in the uni- get a mild queasiness, others are fly with people who trust their lives to verse. But with the universe being so throwing up for three days. Some peo- your ability to fly. If you are not flying

it in big, it tal

If to get to the nearest other star. They But almost everyone adapts and is well one huge hurry , . . like now! you're may know we're here, but how many at three days. There's no correlation unable to do the job in an EVA suit, you light years will it take for them to send between people prone to motion sick- find out, you find out every minute. something to us, even after they catch ness down here and space sickness. Spaceflight does not require you to be our signal? And they're catching the TV It's a different mechanism, having to do an Olympian. The reason to be fit is to stations putting out 50 megawatts, with orientation and sensory conflict work 16 hours a day, decade after Omni: How would you signal them? and this magical realm between zero g decade, to still hang in there. Then you need to kick in a little more, Musgrave: Let's just say I express a de- and gravity. when sire that whatever is out there would Omni: What important things have we it's there. It gives you some margin suit, although you come down and get me. And if they learned about the body? working in the space

it. to came for me, unconditionally, I'd go. If Musgrave: Spaceflight for the first time shouldn't need You want design they're that advanced, they probably focused people on the significant tools and work so that it doesn't take

suit I know my requirements in terms of oxy- physiology occurring when you're muscle. If I'm using muscle in a are gen, pressure, and other things. If di- forced into a sedentary condition. You stop in my tracks and say, What mensions exist that are beyond our don't need muscles to counteract grav- you doing wrong? General spaceflight conceptual ability, they define reality ity, your blood's not moving up against doesn't require superfitness. gradient, your Omni: How did NASA lose momentum? also. I do not impose my limitations on a hydrostatic bones Spaceflight is Musgrave: Maybe it's the coordination the system. I recognize that this room don't have any stresses. bedrest, of a very, very complex effort. Maybe in is /loHhis room, but only the way I per- physiologically similar to got politicized. ceive it. The signature a bat has of this which is not good. It de-conditions you. part because space "What room, seeing it in ultrasound, or a fly There are ways to keep our systems Space became looked upon as

it for or "What can it do for with that great big eye it has—neither active in space. But because NASA can do me?" district?" as opposed looks upon my reality as 1 do. my bit It's frightening to realize I'm to being a little sacred. should treat space for in an environment that is noth- EVERY SQUARE MILLIMETER ON EARTH'S We its sake, not compare ing like the reality 1 perceive, own IVIy perceptions are there for FILLED WITH LIVING it with social programs. If isn't worthwhile, one reason: I survive in this space the environment. There is no real- CREATURES WHO ARE LEAPING OFF THE then cancel whole ity anywhere of anything. So thing. The leadership from in this situation, how do we PLANET FOR THE the president. Congress. transcend space? The speed and NASA should decide of light appears to be a block SOLAR SYSTEM. I'M ONLY A REPRESENTATIVE what they want a space so that, based on what we station to do and whether know now, we'll never go any- OF THIS LIFE FORCE. it's worth doing. If it's yes. where. We might be able to then it should be a long- use electromagnetic energy, term commitment. The which does go at the speed of light. If wanted to study what happens and not space station contract is spread over you encode this energy you send out, interfere, Skylab, our first space station the United States, almost every NASA maybe it's possible. program, was just research. Since center, and a huge number of contrac- Omni: How has being a physician af- then, we haven't been out there long tors run by different centers. That diver- fected you as an astronaut? enough to really find out about these sion and diffusion needs an incredibly Musgrave: Within NASA probably the things. The Russians have. They have effective, communicative, management biggest application was in spacewalk- penguin suits —you wear a harness structure. That's hard to do. nature is an orderly, beauti- ing. In 1971 I became the astronaut and springs, and a cap to pull down on Omni: That specialist in spacewalks, leading into your head and create a force on the ful, and sensible state came early to the Skylab program. I'm also the spe- neck muscles and vertebrae. They you. Why? cialist for the shuttle suits, EVA, and have platforms in which you wear a Musgrave: I always ran out into nature. in others. The physiology you have in a harness and hook up all sorts of As a child I could be more at peace suit is what the suit gives you —the springs to create a force equivalent to the middle of a dark forest at night than pressure, the oxygen. It removes car- your body weight against the platform. anywhere else. There was an unbeliev- bon dioxide, controls your temperature, You can only create artificial gravity able amount of chaos anc suffering everything. There's a lot of gccd in big spaceships that rotate. But that around me, so I headed for nature. anatomy in the relationship of your has huge problems. It's incredibly sick- Later, studying the humanities, I saw in body to the suit: It has to work as an in- ening when you change your radius: the roots of my experiences in nature tegrated organism. As soon as you say, if you walk from the outer edge to the Amencan Renaissance—in Emer- learn that, you become more skillful in the inside. son, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, working with a space suit. You don't Omni: Is there any limit physiologically Hawthorne. And in the English Roman- work against it anymore, and you don't to the age at which a man or woman tics—Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Blake, Shelley even look at it as a friend. When I go should go into space? tests view space travel from a out in this suit, I am now a new organ- Musgrave: You meet the same Omni: Do you ism that has tc work in certain ways. everyone else does. There's a bottom spiritual perspective?

Omni: You've never been space sick? line every single day. It's, not just peri- Musgrave: Space is a way of exploring

Musgrave: No. I'd say it runs about 50- odic physical exams and running on personal experience. Maybe because 78 OMNI we weren't designed to be up there, where. The software shut itself down Personal we're able to pursue ourselves. You exactly as it was supposed to. That can achieve a silent mind—meditat- was not a close call. Half an hour later Products ing—floating in the dark in space. The we climbed out. That was one of the

body is not in contact with anything. few times I faked my emotions. You're Distances, velocity, the big patterns not supposed to come out looking and wholeness of Earth, the relation of overcome with joy. It's a programmatic Earth to the universe, plays into my setback, and your emotions are in no sense of the organic nature of things. way disappointed. You're just very glad

The search is what drives me. Ninety- you're getting to walk off, even though nine-point-something percent of my life you'll have to do it again. Now on that is spirituality. Spaceflight is part of my same shuttle, we lost an engine five quest as is my study of philosophy, lit- minutes and 20 seconds into the flight. erature, and the arts. Both science and We were the only flight ever to lose an art are ways of knowing the world. Sci- engine after we got off. This was in July ence tends to be more an intellectual 1985. It was the Challenger. We exercise, tending to separate the ob- dumped a lot of fuel out there to lighten server from the observed. Art to the load, didn't into tends so we get as high v::t:;cu': cnTt:.rr^ss:T:i:.1^. integrate the subject and observer. Art orbit as they'd planned preflight. more appreciates that you cannot sep- Omni: Where do you want to 'be ten *H*H1;^ CiS?E.-pl!iK'T5R:I^. arate the two. years from now? Omni: When a shuttle mission is near- Musgrave: Five years from now I'd like you've been reluctant to purchase sensual products through the mail, ing its end, do you wish you could stay to be doing what I am now, but better If vi/e viTOuId like to offer out longer? But ten is a tough one. it's like asking you three things that might cltange your mind. Musgrave: Oh yeah, months longer. I'd what is life beyond spaceflight? It's like to move out there. It's a whole dif- hard for me to see beyond It. I'm not 1. We guarantee youi privacy. vi^e is ferent mentality the day when you're sure that I'll be flying then. Everything ship plainly and securely wrapped, with no clue to its gonna come back, as opposed to "I The night before a launch I lie in the contents from the outside. All transac- have moved." It doesn't mean I don't ocean, and watch the satellites streak- tions are strictly confidential, and we love Earth. Earth is a paradise. If ing overhead, and lock at a fully never sell, rent or trade any names. there's a bright moon, you see Earth in loaded vehicle that's running, alive. 2. We guarantee your satisfaction. moonlight. I always find out what l

Musgrave; I don't worry about space- and land. You think of transitions of liv- ucts from around the world. It is walks because they're so graceful, like ing things in and out of the ocean. And designed for both the timid and the ballet, and so quiet. Most risky situa- you are representing life leaping off the bold, or for anyone who has ever tions involve huge velocity, huge planet. I'm not just a human going into wished there could be something more amount of noise, huge energy release. space, you know. People who think the to their sensual pleasures. At times velocity and heat powerfully original expedition to space was a Celebrate the possibilities for plea- ionize the air and that creates electro- competition between two nations miss sure we each have within us. Send for magnetic interference with radio the ball altogether Every square mil- the Xandria Gold Edition Catalogue. waves. You lose communication with limeter on this Earth is filled with hun- Its price of $4.00 is applied, in full, to mission control. But the vehicle always dreds of thousands living of creatures. your first order. does an extraordinarily good flying job What is this life force doing? it's leaping Write today. You have absolurelv on autopilot at that point. off the planet for the solar system, I am nothing to lose, and an entirely new Entry is smooth; it takes longer, is only a representative of the life force. world of enjoyment to gain. much quieter than launch, and less We have covered this whole globe, risky. is slick Entry as skating on ice. up, down, and everywhere, and now The Xandria Collection, Dept. OM0S94 You light the engines off and a half we're gonna populate the rest of the P.O. Box 31039, San Francisco, CA 94131 hour later you're skimming in the at- solar system. Give us the technology Please send me, by first class mail, the Xandria Gaid Edition Catalogue. Enclosed is mv check or "onev mosphere, just barely touching it. You and we're gonna head out across the order tor $4.00 which wUi be applied towards mv fiis! fall purchase. ($4 U.S., $5 CAN., £3 UJC) don't into or strike it. Once you start universe. So, 1 lie in the ocean and I am an adult over 21 years of age: in the atmosphere it's a whole 15 min- think about life and death, because utes until you're at one g, that occurs in the vehicle and the

Omni: Have you had any close calls ocean. I ask myself on this night before during a mission? the launch: "Story, is this the last time Musgrave: Not really. On my second you're gonna do this? Are you going to mission we had a launch abort where voluntarily leave this experience and

lit we the engines, got close to lighting say, 'Never again"^" No, 1 cannot walk the solid rockets, and didn't go any- away from this.CXD take high-resolution photographs of the face because of the targeting ability of HARS FACE planet's surface that will help NASA the whole system," says Arden Albee, project scientist on the Mars Observer CONTINUED FROM PAGE 36 select Pathfinder's landing site and decide where to send the rover. "It mission and a member of NASA's Mars team, my at Cornell University and chairman makes a certain amount of sense to put Recovery study hill we're trying to take a of tine Mars Science Worl

anomalous on Mars, Malin says, IVlars orbiter takes high-resolution pho- Carlotto must examine as "many loca- tographs of the landforms by making tions on Mars in mountainous terrains them a top mission priority and show that only the things in the Hoagland founded the Mars Cydonia area—pyramids and the lil

Malin 's arguments against the For IVlalin, a photo of the area near the for 10 Hours! Cydonian structures' artificial origins face showing "roads or large areas that and indeed with NASA's treatment of have been excavated" will prove his If you own a computer and a modem, you the Cydonia issue as a whole, Stan hypothesis wrong. "On the other hand, can get even more of the OMNI experience MoDaniel, a professor of philosophy at if we see just a natural-looking surface, with OMNI Magazine on America Online.

Sonoma State University with 30-year then I would argue my hypothesis is a Broaden your horizons and enter the in areas of as correct," adds. For only background such study he Hoagland, worlds of science, science fiction, and the ethics, philosophy of science, and criti- fractal analysis of high-resolution pho- future with information and insights from cal thinking, has conducted a two-year tos indicating that the objects are part this month's issue. Talk to other OMNI study of NASA's official policy regard- of the natural terrain will dissuade him readers on interactive message boards or ing the face and the methodology that from the views he's firmly held for the send e-mail to the OMNI staff. Participate both NASA and the independent inves- past ten years. in hve conferences and events, and enjoy OMNI's sibling publication, COMPUTE tigators have employed in analyzing it. And despite the unexpected failure Magazine, use lieyword to Many of NASA's arguments against the of the Mars Observer, Hoagland, Malin, Just OMNI access OMNI Magazine Online! independent investigators' conclusions and the rest of the world could know are "seriously flawed, both in terms of before the decade is out the elusive Or, sample hundreds of other informative methodology and logic," MoDaniel truth—whatever it may be—behind the and entertaining services, like computing says. Moreover, the^ methodology used mysterious monuments of Mars. DO support from leading hardware and soft- by DiPietro, Molennar, Carlotto, Torun, ware makers, more than 70,000 software programs you can download and keep, and Hoagland "is sound," based on Do you think the government is cov- and an international e-mail gateway. established scientific criteria, he says. ering up information about the "NASA itself uses the shape-from- Order today to get America's most exciting structures on Mars? Do you believe shading technique to determine the online service and your free 10-hour trial the Mars face was constructed by probable three-dimensional shape of membership. extraterrestrial life forms? Call (900) objects in- space photographs," 285-5483 and voice your opinions. McDaniel says. The fractal analysis 1-800-827-6364 Your comments will be recorded technique used by Carlotto "is a stand- and may appear in an upcoming Ext. 7926 ard scientific method in use" for deter- A issue of Omni. The cost for the call mining the probable artificiality of is 95 cents per minute. You must be objects in satellite images, he adds. age 18 or older. Touch-tone phones A A M E R.I r A And in McDaniel's view, "the magni- only. Sponsored by Pure Entertain- tude of the issue at stake which is the — ment, 505 South Beverly Drive, possible proof of the 'existence of Suite 977, Beverly Hills, California extraterrestrial intelligence" should — 90212. compel NASA to ensure that any new onnmiFaniufin FREE CATALOG! 1-800-648-7938 JERROLD HAMLIN OAK ETC CABLE TV DESCRAMBLERS

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ing at, say, 80,000 feet leaves a long, COSMIC strong plume like a space shuttle Have You Lived CONTINUED FROM PAGE 50 launch. But we knew that isn't the way UFOs are usually reported." Before? likely to see the light of day will proba- Part of the problem, according to bly have to come from inside leaks. Klass, who has written a book on mili- And that may have already happened. tary spy satellites titled Secret Sentries One UFO researcher, using sources he in Space, is that the DSP system has won't reveal, has turned up evidence of performed better than spec, "It's too what he believes might be a UFO good, or too sensitive, if you prefer," he tracked by satellite. Last year, Joe Ste- says, "In fact, it was so good that it was fula, formerly a special agent with the sent back to research and develop- army's Criminal Investigation Com- ment for fine tuning, in order to elimi- mand, made public on several elec- nate as many false alarms as possible. tronic bulletin boards what purports to Obviously, we didn't want a fuel stor- be a diagram of an infrared event de- age tank fire next to a Soviet missile tected by a DSP satellite on May 5, silo to set off a launch alarm," he ex-

1984. "I haven't been able to determine plains, "Nor did we want the system to that the document's absolutely authen- track the dozens or hundreds of Rus-

tic," says Stefula, "but I have been able sian jet fighters in the air every day" to confirm that the DSP printout for that Klass's best guess is that the myste- date shows an event at the same time rious May 1984 Fast Walker event un- with the same charactenstics." covered by Stefula probably repre- According to Stefula's alleged sents nothing more than a classified source, now said to be retired from the mission flown by our own SR-71 high- military, the official code name for altitude Blackbird spyplane, "It's admit- already unidentified objects exhibiting ballistic tedly too long a duration to be a meteor Have you everfelt you missile characteristics is Fast Walker, fireball," he concedes, "but the Black- knew someone you just met? "But what makes this particular Fast bird typically flies at an altitude of Walker so peculiar," says Stefula, "is 80,000 to 100,000 feet, which makes Has an unfayniliar place that it comes in from outer space on a its afterburner trail easily visible to the curved trajectory, passes within three DSP system," suddenly seemedfamiliar? kilometers of the satellite platform, and In the same context, says Klass, then disappears back into space. Fast Walker might be a code name for Can the Iheory of reincarnatfon help Whatever it is, it was tracked for nine the recently retired SR-71 itself, or, con- you discover the meaning of life? minutes. That doesn't sound like a me- ceivably, its Soviet counterpart, assum- Explore this and other intriguing teorite to me." ing the Soviets had one at the time. topics througln the Rosicrucian teachings. Regehr agrees: "It was there too Either way Klass concludes, "It's no These time-honored studies give access long. It was going too slow. It didn't surprise that the air force would want to to the accumulated knowledge of history's have enough speed for escape veloc- keep much of this information secret," greatest teachers in the form of practical lessons and exercises mailed to your ity," But escape it did. Apparently, keep most of it secret home. The May, 1984 event allegedly gen- they will. Despite the success Taglia- The Rosicrucian Order is a world- erated a 300-page internal report, only ferri and a few others had in getting wide educational and philosophical portions of which are classified, though past the military censors, don't antici- organization. It is not a religion, and does none of it has yet been released, "I pate a flood of similar studies, espe- not require a specific code of belief or don't think they would do a 300-page cially one in search of UFO reports, "I conduct, report on everything they detect," says don't see the air force declassifying a ' To obtain the free introductory Stefula, whose efforts to obtain the re- whole lot more of the DSP data to other booklet about the Rosicrucian studies, send the coupon below on port have so far been unsuccessful, scientists, not without an incredible

"so there must have been something amount of cleanup," says Captain call toll-free significant about tt^is that led them to Kennedy, "And it's certainly not acces- 800-882-6672 look into it. My source told me that they sible to requests through the Freedom basically looked at every possibility of Information Act." No one will call on you. and couldn't explain it by natural or Even if some unknowns turn out to I'd like to learn more about the man-made means," be UFOs, the Air Force Space Com- Rosicrucian studies. Please send me the Nor was this apparently an isolated mand isn't going to hand UFOIogists free introductory booklet. event. According to the unnamed or anyone else—that information on a source, such Fast Walkers are de- silver platter. Meanwhile, the dividing tected, on the average, "two to three line between what might constitute ex- times a month," traterrestrial technology and our own Even longtime arch-UFO skeptic twentieth century equivalent grows in-

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