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Chemical explosions (e.g., magnesium flash powder) would not do as much damage, but they would contaminate the moon in their own way. So would powdered dyes or carbon black splashed on the moon's surface to make a visible mark. Even a probe that lands gently on the moon and tells about its feat by radio (no easy trick) might carry earthside germs whose desiccated corpses would confuse later-coming biologists. Many scientists have urged that any vehicle intended to hit the moon should be sterilized inside and out before it leaves the earth...
...Algeria, he maneuvered endlessly to bring the 500,000 soldiers and 1,000,000 European civilians in Algeria back under the authority of the central government. (The general's only nonofficial appointment during this period: a brief chat with naval Lieut. Commander Philippe de Gaulle, *a gangling carbon copy of the Charles de Gaulle of 30 years ago.) By a virtuoso's blend of compromise and judicious pressure (see below), De Gaulle succeeded in restoring some degree of discipline in the army, thereby nullifying the civil war threat of the right-wing civilian ultras of Algiers...
TIME [May 12] said "Three senior scientists at Columbia's Lament Geological Observatory wrote that most of carbon 14 is soaked up by the ocean, that Pauling's estimate of the increase of carbon 14 in the atmosphere was 50 times too high. Pauling's figure: 10%; the Columbia figure: .2%." TIME is wrong. See AEC Commissioner Libby's statements of March 27, 1958. Libby also says that the "carbon 14 rise might be as high as 3% per year as appears to have been observed...
...Pauling said that the earth's content of carbon 14 had gone up 10%, missing the point that AECommissioner Willard Libby was talking about the percentage increase in the total atmosphere. Hence the observation of the Lament geologists that Chemist Pauling's calculations were based on an "erroneous premise...
...first, worst foe of the rocketeer trying to get a manned capsule into space, so everything that can possibly be saved and re-used must be conserved. Hence the futuristic proposals that in addition to recycling his oxygen supply (perhaps with elaborate photolysis, to break down the accumulating carbon dioxide), the space pilot will have to recycle his body wastes. Extraction of palatable water, though still not perfected, might be practicable for space flight if the equipment weight could be cut down. One suggestion for maintaining a near-perpetual cycle of food: use the pilot's wastes as food...