Today a great man of science died. James Van Allen was one of the found fathers of planetary science. The Radiation belts that circle our planet bare his name. In an impressive move, Walter Sullivan, science editor for the New York Times has come back from the dead to write the story on Van Allen. You see It's common for newspapers to put stories together for the deaths of famous people ahead of time. That way when they die they have the whole thing ready, just fill the date, the how, and print. In this case Walter Sullivan wrote the story about the death of Van Allen before his own death in 1996. Creepy. Van Allen was 91 years old.
The news story can be read
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