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...Desilu Studios) produced a television series about "Space, The Final Frontier," an NBC show featuring a starship called the USS Enterprise that could on a good night travel quite a few times faster than the speed of light, and a crew of 430 human and other beings ("carbon-based units" as they came to be called) determined to "explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations: to boldly go where no man has gone before...
...larger issue of continued reliance on fossil fuels must be considered as well, particularly with regard to coal. Carbon dioxide is believed to have potential to do irreversible damage to the earth through what is known as the "greenhouse effect...
...half of its remaining radioactivity). Technetium 99m, a common isotope used especially for detecting brain tumors, has one of only six hours, while fluorine 18, used in bone scans, is half decayed in less than two hours. Of greater concern are the isotopes used in laboratory tests. Among them: carbon 14, with a half-life of 5,750 years. A large hospital may conduct thousands of radioactive tests and procedures daily, including those with carbon 14, and produce enough waste to fill several dozen 30-gal. drums every week. But few hospitals are equipped to store this waste for long...
...Carbon monoxide levels in Harvard Square, he explains, are already "worse than anywhere else in the state--including the mouth of the Callahan Tunnel." Johnson says that additionl development, especially on the scale of the Carpenter proposal, will make a bad situation worse...
There were technical differences between the bulbs that, Edison's partisans say, made his superior. For example, Swan's carbon rod was fairly thick, Edison's filament was thin. But a crucial difference was that Swan stopped with inventing the bulb, while Edison took what would now be called a "systems approach"; he saw that the bulb had to be only one of a whole series of inventions. To make it in the first place, he and his assistants had to produce a more complete vacuum than had ever been known before. Then they had to devise...