As lubricant, it coats, soothes, protects, contains antiseptic enzymes and immunoglobins, blankets the airways up the nose and down into the lungs, snags smoke particles from the air, and prevents the stomach from digesting itself in its own juices. It's not hard to fathom the white knuckles, throwing up or wetting one's pants. This drains blood from the face. Bloodless facial skin appears yellowish and thin, letting the blue of the veins show through. To those few cells that divided and subdivided to become your master-schemer, dreamer, creator of music or poetry, you owe a lot.
Communications satellites do just that.
Now its centrifugal force offsets the colossal growing weight below. Unlike Star Trek's holodecks or warp drive, at least the ladder may be feasible. To those few cells that divided and subdivided to become your master-schemer, dreamer, creator of music or poetry, you owe a lot. Union-Tribune Publishing Co.