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...pulsed currents of electricity, presumably to keep them in touch with things around them. The system they use is not well understood, but it is known that one kind of fish can detect a current of two one-hundred-billionths of an ampere per square centimeter of its body. Its electronic sensing permits it to discriminate between glass rods in its tank that differ in diameter by less than one-tenth of an inch. Study of these talented fish could pay off richly in electronic ideas...
...lose weight and working efficiency during the war. To feed the growing mass of humans at a level above subsistence, more than 70 square miles of land should be turned over to agriculture every day. But one-fifth of the earth's surface is too cold to produce crops, one-fifth too arid, one-fifth too mountainous, and one-tenth is bare rock. In Cardiff, Wales last week, at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, some 2,000 of the world's leading experts confronted these facts with a surprising optimism. One...
...round and polished as a giant ball bearing, its aluminized Mylar film kept tightly inflated by 20 Ibs. of vaporized anthraquinone, a normally solid organic chemical. When its 100-ft. sphere moved on its orbit 1,000 miles away from the surface of the earth, it covered about one-tenth the angle of the planet Venus at 40 million miles, but it did not show as a disk even in a powerful telescope. The sun reflecting on its spherical surface showed as a mathematical point, as stars...
...orbit was a triumph of precision. Echo I was circling the earth once every 121.6 min. at altitudes ranging from 1,018 to 1,160 miles. It deviated from its planned course by only one-tenth of a degree and four miles of altitude. Visible as the brightest stars in the night sky it was quickly sighted by observers in England. Australia and Japan. After it has been bombarded by meteorites and misshapen by the cold of sunless space, it is anybody's guess how long Echo I will remain on course. But this did not diminish the jubilation...
...days. But when papers back home began calling him "irresponsible" and his statements of praise for Castro a "pact with the devil," it apparently dawned on him that Brazilians have no vast yearning to take their cues from a reckless government on a chaotic island that is only one-tenth as populous as their own country. Two days before his visit was supposed to end, he dashed off bread-and-butter messages to his hosts, climbed aboard a plane for safer terrain in Venezuela...