The Sun Shines BrightRevised and updated essays selected from the Magazine of fantasy and science fiction, March 1979-July 1980. |
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... rings . If we know the year when a tree was cut down and count the rings backward from the bark , one can associate any ring with a particular year . If each tree ring is shaved off and is separately analyzed for its carbon - 14 content ...
... rings . If we know the year when a tree was cut down and count the rings backward from the bark , one can associate any ring with a particular year . If each tree ring is shaved off and is separately analyzed for its carbon - 14 content ...
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... rings - thin dark rings not visible to ordinary inspection at that planet's great distance . This , and the even more recent discovery of a ring around Ju- piter , now makes it look as though ringed planets may be common , and that ...
... rings - thin dark rings not visible to ordinary inspection at that planet's great distance . This , and the even more recent discovery of a ring around Ju- piter , now makes it look as though ringed planets may be common , and that ...
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... rings , which have a structure much more complex than anyone dreamed . There may be as many as a thousand subrings ... rings , dark regions crossing the rings at right angles to their rota- tion . A second Voyager probe is on its way ...
... rings , which have a structure much more complex than anyone dreamed . There may be as many as a thousand subrings ... rings , dark regions crossing the rings at right angles to their rota- tion . A second Voyager probe is on its way ...
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