Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building interior first of all required proper lighting-26.250 watts' worth, twice the amount needed for the torch lights on the Statue of Liberty. Strock's lighting plans called for the erection of two towers, each one studded from top to bottom with sockets ten inches apart to hold the 375-watt bulbs. These towers, mounted on rubber casters, were to be moved slowly around the room to synchronize with the turning of the camera...
Many more such outlandish craft will be built to exploit the fabulous treasure of oil, gas and sulphur that lies under the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Bringing it up and to shore will be hard, risky and expensive, but the oilmen, though strangers to the sea, are the most supremely confident of confident Americans...
Later the climate grew wetter, and the rivers cleared the shallow sea of its heavy brine. Some of the salt on the bottom probably dissolved, but the rest was protected by sediment washed down from the land. As the sediment grew thicker, it pressed on the underlying salt, and the salt (comparatively light and plastic) billowed up through it like slow-motion bubbles rising in a viscous liquid...
Pushed by a gush of oil money and promises of more, scientists attacked these problems from half a dozen directions. They hung steel piles studded with strain gauges from offshore drilling platforms and measured the force of passing waves all the way to the bottom. Theoretical physicists figured the size of the waves that hurricane winds would generate in different depths of water, and how high the sea would rise...
...kelp that fringe the shores of the North Pacific, where they lead an easy and highly specialized life, floating much of the time on their backs with their forearms folded over their chests. Whenever they feel hungry, all they need do is roll over and dive to the bottom for sea urchins. They bring the sea urchins to the surface, lay them out on their chests and eat them at leisure, just as if they were sitting at a well-stocked dining-room table...