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ATK PROVIDES MISSION CRITICAL COMPONENTS TO BE ASSEMBLED ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION MINNEAPOLIS, June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliant Techsystems' (NYSE: ATK - News) reusable solid rocket motors (RSRM) performed flawlessly today, providing more than six million pounds of thrust as NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis launched into orbit to begin a 11-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) to continue installation of two additional solar panels. During the STS-117 mission the crew will install the second and third starboard truss segments (S3/S4) which include a third set of solar arrays. In addition, the astronauts will retract the P6-2B wing,...

My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming. Charting this progression of belief will be my task today. Let me say at once that I have no desire to discourage anyone from believing in either extraterrestrials or global warming. That would be quite impossible to do. Rather, I want to discuss the history of several widely-publicized beliefs and to...