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...Fifty million motorists simultaneously applying their brakes from a speed of 60 m.p.h. would impart 50 times as much energy to the earth's crust as David Stone's jumping Chinese. Careful coordination could focus the energy at any point on earth. Unfortunately, the first Chinese jump would destroy our highways and prevent a retaliatory attack. Therefore a preemptive strike should be made at once...
...stoutly resisted the conclusion that some time in the remote past, the earth's land masses began splitting up and drifting apart-a theory known as "continental drift." Sheer nonsense, they insisted. No known forces could possibly have propelled huge continents across the earth's dense, basaltic crust...
...more of Wilder's stuff you see, the more you will be amazed by the man. He has done everything: trial drama ( Witness for the Prosecution ). Hollywood gothic ( Sunset Boulevard ). farce ( Some Like It Hot ), upper-crust romance ( Sabrina ). alcoholic melodrama ( The Lost Weekend ). He has done everything, and yet, he always wants the same thing from his audience-total distrust. Cynicism of the nastiest sort creeps into all of his work. While that doesn't exactly make his films pleasant, it certainly makes them unique in the history of American cinema...
...that nuclear devices might relieve the stresses before they go on the rampage. Exploded two to three miles underground at intervals of twelve to 30 miles along a fault zone, the bombs would set off a series of relatively small shocks. Properly timed, these jolts would jog along the crust ever so slightly to release the forces working against it. The blasts would, in effect, be seismic safety valves, letting off small but significant amounts of pressure whenever an earthquake threatened...
...Miami seismologists-Cesare Emiliani, Christopher G. A. Harrison and Mary Swanson-say that the job probably could be done by high-yield nuclear devices of one to ten megatons, presumably H-bombs. But other seismologists point out that an explosion meant only to keep the earth's crust moving slightly may, in fact, make it lurch violently-and actually precipitate a major quake...