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Country music, as a genuine subculture — as opposed to a Nashville-created product — is intimately tied to the Alamo City. The music’s roots run deep in.
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“I don’t want to gross you out, so instead of chicken guts I will use a piece of red silk.” That’s what I tell the audience as I begin my demonstration on “psychic surgery.” Magicians, be they professionals or hobbyists, tend to have strong feelings about anyone who abuses their beloved art by fleecing the public. As “scientists of the stage,” magicians use a variety of scientific and engineering principles to entertain audiences and have a strong disdain for charlatans who perform the same illusions but claim to do so by paranormal means. Fake psychics fall into this category, although I suppose the term “fake” is redundant.
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Landing humans on Mars is a colossal challenge. Returning them to Earth is an even bigger one. Launching a return vessel requires fuel and oxygen, but the amounts needed exceed what could be transported from Earth and would therefore have to be produced on Mars. Combustible methane could possibly be produced from the carbon dioxide that makes up roughly 95 per cent of Mars’s atmosphere, but supplying the oxygen needed poses an immense problem. The hope is that the “Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment” that was delivered to the red planet aboard the Perseverance rover can serve as a prototype for the large-scale production of oxygen.