Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technology, crude as it is. He could, suggests Air Force Lieut. Colonel S. E. Singer in the Air University Quarterly Review, store the sun's abundant heat energy (daytime heat 248° F.) with inertial flywheels (which are inefficient on earth because of atmospheric friction), and control his heating during the −200° F. cold lunar nights. He could, adds Physicist Singer, extract water from rock; then from the water, by means of electrolysis, could come oxygen to sustain him, and hydrogen for fuels and chemical synthesis, and for growing food by hydroponics...
...military terms, control of the moon represents the classical concept of the "high ground." Thus the lunar military potential takes on a new urgency in terms of observation and missilery. Says Air Force Brigadier General Homer Boushey: with moderate-sized telescopes, lunar observers could daily "monitor the positions of all ships at sea, all major surface construction, all above-ground missile sites" on the earth. The growing sciences of optics and radar observation already promise the tools to assure continuous observation of the turning earth and the pinpointing of objects as small as 100 ft. across...
...knowledge are as out of this world as the moon itself. Its airless environment and its fantastic temperature range make an ideal laboratory for high-vacuum and cryogenic (refrigerants) research; the vast amounts of solar energy, if properly harnessed on the moon, might be used to affect or control the earth's weather...
...visit to Paris without first consulting him. Although Adenauer had discussed and approved in advance the French President's moves to block an early summit, he was finding De Gaulle a difficult ally. He had been troubled when De Gaulle pulled his Mediterranean navy out from NATO control. He was profoundly embarrassed when De Gaulle remarked that the Oder-Neisse line between East Germany and Poland should be Germany's permanent eastern frontier. Recently, German dignity was affronted when two French destroyers intercepted the West German freighter Bilbao and forced it to put into Cherbourg on the suspicion...
...proposed that the armed forces of both nations withdraw 12½ miles from the positions they now hold, and urged an early meeting to discuss frontier problems. Such a move might be advantageous to China but not to India, replied Nehru tartly, since it would mean acceptance of Chinese control over large areas claimed by India. Nevertheless, he added, "the spirit of the Chinese letter is not bad." The Reds also returned ten Indian policemen captured in last month's skirmish in Ladakh, as well as the bodies of nine others killed in the same fight...