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	[percy-l] The Pope on lost in the cosmos fyi
		[percy-l] The Pope on lost in the cosmos fyi
		Reflection on the Canticle in Colossians 1 Christ Is Lord of Cosmos and of History, Says Pope VATICAN CITY, MAY 5, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of John Paul II's address at today's general audience, which he dedicated to comment on a hymn in the first chapter of the Letter to the Colossians.
		We are not a useless speck of dust, lost in space and time without meaning, but we are part of a wise plan that stems from the love of the Father.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/percy-l/2004-May/000706.html (1209 words)

	Walker Percy assessment \| Computer Writing and Research Lab
		Upon reading the first forty pages of Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos, I can see how some would argue that Walker Percy may be a heretic, or that he has heretical tendencies.
		Regardless of his intentions, one could easily deduce from Lost in the Cosmos that Percy is using God as a counterweight for his social commentary.
		Lost in the Cosmos considers itself “the last self help book” because it renders all others obsolete.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /node/956 (4143 words)

	Amor De Cosmos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		De Cosmos remained as editor of the Colonist through 1863, and quickly established himself as an opponent of the administration of Sir James Douglas, governor of the colony and the former Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company for Vancouver Island.
		De Cosmos was a liberal reformer cast in the mould of John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
		It was, however, De Cosmos' attempt to alter the terms of union in order to obtain monetary guarantees from the federal government to complete a dry dock at Esquimalt that eventually led to accusations of impropriety, and ended his provincial political career.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amor_De_Cosmos (1237 words)

	Scientists cling to hopes for lost solar craft
		Cosmos 1 was launched on a Russian Volna rocket on Tuesday from a submarine in the Barents Sea.
		Cosmos 1 carried eight triangular sails made of tough, reflective and ultra-thin Mylar, one-fifth the thickness of a plastic trash bag.
		The scientists behind Cosmos 1 had hoped to prove that rays of light could provide a limitless energy propulsion source for space voyages.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-06/23/content_453842.htm (618 words)

	News in Science - Cosmos orbiter lost in space - 22/06/2005
		Cosmos 1, the world's first spacecraft powered by a solar sail, was launched from a Russian submarine but tracking stations around the world have failed to detect it (Image: Michael Carroll, The Planetary Society)
		Privately funded Cosmos 1, the world's first solar-sail spacecraft, blasted off in a converted Russian intercontinental ballistic missile from the Barents Sea at 19:46 UTC on 21 June (05:46 AEST, 22 June), at the start of a mission that cost US$4 million (A$5 million).
		Jim Cantrell, project operations manager for Cosmos 1, says it was possible the Russian missile had put the spacecraft into an orbit that was not the planned trajectory, accounting for the apparent absence of the craft.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s1397794.htm (468 words)

	Interviews - Walker Percy
		Percy was just finishing Lost in the Cosmos (1983), and he filled me in on all that was required to get his book in final shape.
		Sometime later, when he was wrapping up Lost in the Cosmos, he wrote to tell me he'd like to see some interview questions, to which he would respond in writing.
		WP: Also in Lost in the Cosmos: writers are in the front line of sensibility, like the canaries miners take down in the shafts to test the air.
	www.doubletakemagazine.org /int/html/percy (2338 words)

	Cosmos 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cosmos 1 was a project by The Planetary Society to test a solar sail in space.
		The Cosmos 1 sail was launched at 15:46:09 EDT (19:46:09 UTC) on June 21, 2005.
		On September 30, 2005 an update was released that stated that Cosmos 1 did not reach orbit, and that this was caused by a problem with the Volna rocket.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cosmos_1 (1128 words)

	Cosmos 1 maybe lost in the Space \| TechWhack News
		It could take days to find.â€ The spacecraft is supposed to use the power of the light particles from the sun to move ahead in the space and this technology is expected to power the next generation spacecrafts instead of traditional aviation fuel technology.
		They call it Cosmos 1 and if the project is successful, it would provide an elegant method of space travel...
		Cosmos 1 set for launch A US based non-profit group The Planetary Society would be going ahead with their plans to launch the worldâ€™s first solar sail spacecraft today.
	news.techwhack.com /1495/cosmos-1-lost-in-the-space (610 words)

	Walker Percy - Arts and Faith
		I fell in love with Walker Percy's voice in his non-fictional Lost in the Cosmos and then with his characteristic dysfunctional-yet-searching -- indeed, "on to something," to use his own words -- protagonists (ala Graham Greene's "whiskey priests") in his fiction.
		Lost in the Cosmos was a big step for me, one of those books that took me to a new level.
		But his greatest achievement is as a novelist, so reading Lost in the Cosmos has the effect of giving you the crib sheet.
	artsandfaith.com /index.php?showtopic=587 (1207 words)

	New Oxford Review
		They live in a country that has lost, in its frenetic seeking after happiness and success, the language of sin and character-building through combat with sin.” Brooks remains optimistic about the overall quality of these future leaders, but he laments that they have lost their vocabulary for moral meaning.
		Lost in the Cosmos first appeared in 1983, a time when the humanist fascination with the “self” intensified the stakes in our culture wars.
		Lost in the Cosmos, now re-issued, is a rich mockery, an imaginative parody that explores the modern “self.”
	www.newoxfordreview.org /briefly.jsp?did=0302-briefly (2368 words)

	Cosmos 1 for now Lost in Space - Says AP - Softpedia
		The $4 million project was sponsored by Cosmos Studios, a science-based entertainment company from New York, and the Lavochkin Association and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Russia were in charge of actually building what might be our first step towards the stars.
		The next step is for the spacecraft to unfurl its eight triangular sails, each having a length of about 50 feet and just a quarter the thickness of a trash bag.
		Unfortunately, for now, the fate of Cosmos 1 is yet unknown, because there’s no information to confirm or deny that the space craft has reached the orbit, reports Associated Press, citing a spokeswoman for the Lavochkin institute.
	news.softpedia.com /news/Cosmos-1-for-Now-Lost-In-Space-3503.shtml (381 words)

	Cosmos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Unfortunately, we've lost a lot of man power over the past year, as well as some crucial authors.
		The Cosmos team has been plugging away on both the PTRs and the BC Beta servers to convert mods to the new API.
		To use Cosmos at the moment, please use the 'Alpha' distro for now, as this is the most up-to-date version of Cosmos and the dev team will be uploading bug fixes as soon as they are ready.
	www.cosmosui.org (870 words)

	Archive \| December 6, 1999 \| Lost in the WTO
		Yet when they clashed together, abstract ideals of globalism and compassion were shoved aside, and what we witnessed instead was akin to a psychological exhibition illustrating the dysfunctional depths of the modern human spirit.
		Walker Percy laid it bare nearly two decades ago in his infamous Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, which examined the question of why we can know more about distant stars and planets than we can ever know about our own individual selves.
		As modern man abandons ancient guideposts marking his place in the cosmos, he has lost his sense of self, and so seeks ever more desperately to affirm the self through ever more drastic acts of compulsive self-expression.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/1299wtoprotest.htm (669 words)

	SPACE.com -- Slim Hope Seen for Solar Sail Spacecraft
		The Planetary Society, the Pasadena-based group that orchestrated the $4 million launch of Cosmos 1, all but conceded Wednesday that the spacecraft's launch ended in failure.
		Russia's space agency said with ``some definitiveness'' that Cosmos 1's booster rocket failed 83 seconds after its launch from a Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea on Tuesday.
		Tracking stations on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, in the South Pacific and in the Czech Republic recorded signals that seemed to be transmissions from the craft, Planetary Society officials said, leaving the possibility that the vehicle made it part way around the globe or actually was in orbit, waiting to be found.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/ap_cosmos1_update_050623.html (574 words)

	SPACE.com -- Russian Space Agency: Solar Sail Launch Failed
		The Cosmos 1 vehicle was intended to show that a so-called solar sail can make a controlled flight.
		Its spokesman, Vyacheslav Davidenko, said that "the booster's failure means that the solar sail vehicle was lost." The Russian Defense Ministry launched a search for debris from the booster and the vehicle, he said.
		Controlled flight would have been attempted early next week, and Cosmos 1 was supposed to operate for at least a month.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/ap_solarsail_fail_050622.html (574 words)

	The Origin of Science
		The cosmos was seen as contingent in its existence and thus dependent on a divine choice which called it into being; the universe is also contingent in its nature and so God was free to create this particular form of world among an infinity of other possibilities.
		The rise of science needed the broad and persistent sharing by the whole population, that is, the entire culture, of a very specific body of doctrines relating the universe to a universal and absolute intelligibility embodied in the tenet about a personal God, the Creator of all.
		But the cosmos and all the specific laws which govern it do not form a self-explanatory system; they point beyond science and call for a metaphysical foundation in the Christian doctrine of creation.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/augustine/a/science_origin.html (1844 words)

	Mars probe lost in space \| COSMOS magazine
		LOS ANGELES: The Mars Global Surveyor is probably lost in space according to NASA scientists who have tried unsuccessfully to contact the probe over the past two weeks.
		The 10-year-old spacecraft - the oldest of five NASA robotic explorers studying Mars - was circling the planet snapping high-resolution images and studying the climate in a mission that led to the first evidence that water once flowed on the planet's surface.
		Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, lost contact with the spacecraft on November 2 after it signaled it was having trouble moving one of its solar panels to track the sun as it emerged from behind Mars.
	www.cosmosmagazine.com /node/866 (528 words)

	Wired News: Reality of Cosmos 1 Loss Sets In
		This would mean that Cosmos 1 is lost," the group said in a statement released Wednesday.
		The low-tech feel of the mission was not lost on Ann Druyan, founder of Cosmos Studios and the widow of astronomer Carl Sagan.
		Because Cosmos 1 was launched from the Barents Sea, it was out of range of major ground tracking stations for some of its initial orbits around Earth.
	www.wired.com /news/space/0,2697,67984,00.html (1256 words)

	Lost in Translation: A Ransom Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But face it or not, we find ourselves in Walker Percy’s memorable phrase, lost in the cosmos, yearning desperately to be found.
		Being lost is not a novel condition but has been the norm since things went badly awry in the beginning.
		Lost in Translation is a profoundly sad film with moments of humor about being lost in life.
	www.ransomfellowship.org /M_Lost.html (1139 words)

	Wild Flower Seed: Cosmos(Cosmos bipinnatus) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Cosmos seed looks like miniature pine needles, which makes seeding simple.
		When cosmos plants are 4 to about 12" tall, they are some of the easiest seelings of all to transplant.
		Remember this is a desert species, native to Mexico, so seeding should be done in cold areas after frosts end in spring, not during fall.
	www.wildflowerinformation.org /Wildflower.asp?ID=48 (289 words)

	Cosmos 1 backers acknowledge solar craft is likely lost
		This would mean that Cosmos 1 is lost," the group said in a statement Thursday.
		from other sources" suggesting that Cosmos 1 may have survived and is in a lower orbit than one intended.
		Personnel from the Russian navy's Northern Fleet and space forces were scouring the uninhabited Novaya Zemlya archipelago between the Barents and Kara seas, ITAR-TASS quoted the fleet's headquarters as saying.
	www.spacedaily.com /2005/050623182258.v0v9sr44.html (398 words)

	Wired News: Solar Sail Lost in Space?
		Developed by the Planetary Society, a Pasadena-based space interest group, Cosmos 1 was to have become the first spacecraft to use nothing more than the energy of sunlight to propel itself into higher orbits around Earth.
		Cantrell said the initial burst of data from the spacecraft meant that the Russian missile successfully put Cosmos 1 in orbit, although possibly not at the right position.
		An earlier version of the Cosmos 1 spacecraft was lost in 2001 in a similar launch.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,67967,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 (498 words)

	Walker Percy Doctor of the Soul, by Gregory Wolfe
		Another image he used in his writings was of the "Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock" feeling: a blankness or lostness that often overcomes us.
		One of Percy's funniest and most revealing books was a work of nonfiction entitled Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book.
		In its pages, he used a whole array of devices, from parodies of TV shows to multiple choice quizzes to an extended section on semiotic theory, in order to expound his vision.
	www.godspy.com /reviews/Walker-Percy-Doctor-of-the-Soul.cfm (1555 words)

	Nostalgic Rumblings » The Robinsons: Lost In Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		See, I was never a great fan of the original Lost in Space, being something of a science fiction snob at the time; I mean, c’mon, talking carrots are not on the menu of anyone who reads Robert Heinlein or Issac Asimov.
		From what I’ve been able to read on the Net, there were apparently disagreements as to what direction to take this show, and the faction who wanted to get as far away from the 1960’s template lost…so it’s possibly a good thing that this show never made it to series.
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	blogs.oldradio.net /archives/2005/06/02/the-robinsons-lost-in-space (1310 words)

	The American Enterprise: Aliens in the Cosmos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Through this contact, otherwise unknowable secrets about the nature of the cosmos are revealed to a human being, and this revelation somehow brings inspiration to a world searching for meaning to replace discredited biblical religion.
		We cling to the belief that we are at the center of the cosmos, made in God’s image, or at least are the only intelligent beings in the cosmos.
		His Lost in the Cosmos is a correction, both playful and serious, of Sagan’s earnest Cosmos.
	www.taemag.com /issues/articleid.17081/article_detail.asp (2174 words)

	Solar-sail vehicle lost after launch - Space News - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Cosmos 1 vehicle, a joint Russian-American project, was intended to show that a solar sail can make a controlled flight.
		In the hours after the launch, mission managers at the California-based Planetary Society were still holding out hope that some monitoring stations had picked up faint signals from the $4 million spacecraft and that the craft had made it to orbit.
		Funding came largely from Cosmos Studios, a science-based entertainment company that was founded by Sagan’s widow, Ann Druyan.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8321087 (734 words)

	The Walker Percy Project: Burkhardt
		With sly humor and intellectual verve, Percy created in Lost in the Cosmos a satire turned with consummate skill against the idols of the age.
		Tom Key thinks his play, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self- Help Seminar, may still be too controversial to produce, even though Percy's book, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book was written almost 15 years ago.
		Lost in the Cosmos had always struck Key as a lot closer to the mark of who we are than, say, a generation at the dawn of the "Age of Aquarius." It appeared simple: adapt a self-help book parody into a self-help seminar parody.
	www.ibiblio.org /wpercy/burkhardt.html (2468 words)

	Christian Advice - Lost in the Digital Cosmos
		Walker Percy contended in Lost in the Cosmos that humankind has lost the connection between reality and perception.
		Gabler says that we are witnessing "the triumph of entertainment over life itself." Ironically, his thesis is anchored largely in an electronic world of film and television, while part of the world now travels at breakneck speed into a future of bits, bytes and technoboosterism.
		But the majority of popular Christian Web sites seems to be lost in the digital ether, with no sense of their own location in religious time and space.
	www.surfinthespirit.com /the-web/cosmos.html (3274 words)

	The Howard Center: The Religion & Society Report
		Nevertheless, it might be very constructive for the great shapers of the world to consider it, instead of confining themselves to asking how Israelis and Palestinians can be made to share the tiny territory of Israel and Palestine.
		It seems absurd to claim that an amendment enacted in the context of prayer and thanksgiving to God can today be interpreted to forbid all public acknowledgement of the Creator, who endowed us with our rights.
		“Cosmos Alone or Creator and Cosmos” was written by researcher D. Blair Smith.
	www.profam.org /pub/rs/rs_2001.htm (4914 words)

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