Word: byproducts
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...lengthy space flights, fuel shortages may force astronauts to cut their missions short. But as long as they are aloft, there is little chance that there will ever be a shortage of one constant byproduct of manned-space missions-human waste. During a three-month flight, for example, a crew of three will produce approximately a quarter-ton of solid wastes. What to do with it? Seattle's Rocket Research Corp. offers a practical answer: process the waste and use it as a source of rocket fuel...
Ironically, Orbiter's shot of Copernicus was merely a byproduct of its assignment to photograph 13 possible lunar landing sites for astronauts. Of the 211 photographs it has taken while orbiting the moon, Copernicus and twelve others were shot for "housekeeping"-to advance the roll of film and keep the camera in working order during long intervals when Orbiter was not over one of the possible landing sites. Though NASA did not release any of the other housekeeping shots by week's end, an astronomer who was allowed to see them reported that those taken while the satellite...
...island of Hawaii, a mere 3% is retained by the land. Much of the rest soaks rapidly through permeable soil and rock and seeps into the sea. The continuous loss leaves three-quarters of the island with no streams or lakes to supply fresh water. Now, as a serendipitous byproduct of volcano research, scientists have found new freshwater sources that may not only enable Hawaiians to move into previously uninhabitable areas, but could also help meet the needs of the island's growing population for generations to come...
Last week three researchers at the Albany Medical Center offered a surprisingly accurate answer. And, oddly, that answer was developed as a byproduct of one of the few forms of therapy that can now be started while a baby is still in the womb. When incompatibility of the Rh blood factor between mother and child is serious enough, even a massive transfusion of blood immediately after birth is sometimes too late to save the child. And for such cases doctors have worked out a delicate technique for transfusion in utero. Before they try such major treatment, however, they insert...
Despite his general indictment of tree-caused air pollution, Went also had a kind word for the tree's byproduct. Some of the important organic deposits in the earth's crust, such as petroleum and bituminous coal, he says, may well have come from arboreal air pollutants gradually deposited on earth by falling rain and snow...