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...laboratory: his bathroom (TIME, May 6, 1966). During the first five minutes of a shower, he observed, the electrical field in his bathroom steadily built up in intensity. The effect was too small to present any danger, but that might not be so in the case of the million-cubic-foot tank of a supertanker. There, Pierce has calculated, the electrical charge could easily exceed 10,000 volts per meter after about 45 minutes of spraying...
...present form, STAR occupies more than 100 cubic feet of space. For the "grand tours," Avižienis hopes to compress it into two cubic feet and reduce its power needs to 50 watts-less than most ordinary light bulbs. Avižienis thinks that such a tiny, trusty brain also might be useful closer to earth: monitoring the guidance systems of supersonic aircraft, controlling high-speed trains, and even standing watch over the vital functions of seriously ill patients in hospital wards...
...turn over 51% of their interests to the state-run oil company. Getty Oil has agreed to Algeria's terms, and Mobil is considering doing the same. El Paso Natural Gas was exempted, evidently because Washington has yet to rule on its application to supply one billion cubic feet of Algerian gas daily to the U.S. East Coast-at considerable profit to Algeria...
...problem is what to do with the weapons. The U.S. has facilities in Maryland and Colorado where chemical munitions can be safely disassembled and detoxified or incinerated. But Okinawa lacks such facilities-and wants none. Moreover, the gases cannot be dumped into the sea; if they escaped their containers, cubic miles of ocean might be contaminated...
...Merrimack then flows into the sea. There is a cubic inch of oil inside every cubic yard of sea water. Only four or five hundred years after we end all pollution will the ocean be clean...