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Miller set up a closed apparatus containing water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen. When the water was heated, its vapor circulated the other gases past a small electric "corona" discharge, which promoted chemical reactions among their molecules. This sort of thing may have happened on the primitive earth, where lightning was probably common. In any case, the influence of the electric discharge was similar to that of the strong, solar radiation beating down on the top of the primitive atmosphere...
...original projector were not complicated enough, Chairman Coles and his staff have festooned it with added gadgets manufactured in basement workshops. They can simulate an eclipse of the sun, complete with corona and Baily's beads. They can work up their own thunderstorms: dark clouds move across the dome as lightning flickers and thunder rumbles in the public address system. Added switches on the control panel can send a shower of meteors drifting down the sky. Fireballs flash and explode overhead...
...English names stand on their own feet, and seem curious if regarded as simple words and not as names. A short list should not omit Youngflesh, Thickpenny, Twelve-trees, Clinkscales, Kiswetter, Diddlebock, Ramsbottom and Pigwhistle. Nor should we overlook the family who rounded out an even dozen children with Corona, but when the 13th unexpectedly appeared, he was resolutely named Ultimus Agiter. There is also the familiar but distressing case of Franklin D. Stink, who petitioned the court to be known thereafter as Harry Stink...
Like schoolmasters marking a poor student's test paper Dr. Heckmann and a couple of scientists sharpened their pencils and set to work on Herr Bueren's theory. The sun's corona does blaze at approximately 1,000,000° C., they conceded, but who can believe that the enormous heat is caused, as Herr Bueren also insisted, by cosmic particles striking the sun's outer atmosphere? Why shouldn't the same particles bombard the earth and set it glowing? And did Herr Bueren really believe that sunspots are gaping holes...
...Corona Del Mar, Calif...