<u>Answer:</u>
The context of the article named "Turning Off, Dining In", seems to be about the technological advancements and socialization amongst people.
<u>Explanation:</u>
It refers to how advancement in technology has an impact over the interactions of people among themselves and the change it has caused on this interaction and the ways in which people socialize nowadays.
It focuses on the impact of technology on the bond that a family has by mentioning both the benefits as well as disadvantages of using mobile phones on the dining table where a family sits and eats together.
Answer:
They said nothing can fly in the vacuum
Explanation:
Very soon after people managed to make a machine for a flight (airplane) they have explored the Earth in total. Soon they started with ideas of exploring space. In the 1920s Robert H. Goddard made the first rocket that set ideas about exploring space. Goddard made the claim that rockets will reach the moon.
However, there was much doubt among people. T<u>he newspaper publication, The New York Times, dismissed this idea with the claim that nothing can fly in the vacuum – space lacking any matter. </u>
<u>Only after the first man have managed to reach space and the moon have they been convinced this was not true.</u>
