The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays is an examination of what cosmic rays are and how they work. It was written by Capra with Jonathan Latimer, a crime fiction novelist and screenwriter. As Gilbert describes it, the third and fourth films "repeated the formulas of his earlier work while ever searching for new contrivances for popularization as well as the best language to express his soft religious message" and that the script was essentially a reworking of ideas Capra had developed for a possible documentary about Robert A. Millikan. The film's screenplay works from the premise that the nature of cosmic rays is a mystery comparable to the great detective stories. A committee of marionettes representing Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, and Edgar Allan Poe is called upon to decide the question. The film was broadcast on October 25, 1957, apparently with a smaller television audience share and with more unfavorable reviews than for the first two specials.
In 1972 NASA launched the Pioneer 10 probe to explore and study the outer reaches of our solar system, and to help explain the anomalies seen to the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. Astronomical observations taken of the planets showed that some outside force was tilting and pulling at their orbits ...
Prahlad Jani, also known as Mataji or Chunriwala Mataji, is an Indian breatharian monk who claims to have lived without food and water for 70 years! He says that the goddess Amba sustains him. The Indian Yogi was tested twice in strictly controlled experiments by the Indian Ministery of Defence g...
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