Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Russian scientists did not reach the site until 1927, they found extraordinary devastation even then over about 62 sq. mi. Yet the several craters are among the smallest known: 30 ft. to 150 ft. wide, only 12 ft. deep. The first visitors found no meteorite fragments to a depth of 30 ft. Another expedition tried again for 13 months in 1930-31, found only minute grains of nickel-iron under one crater...
Fearing the indignation of the British public if the ancient stones were damaged during restoration, the ministry is taking no chances. One stone, 4 ft. thick and weighing 45 tons, was known to have cracks, but no one knew whether they went deep enough to weaken the stone so it would break if lifted. To find out, the ministry called on Britain's atomic research station at Harwell. The scientists put 24 grams of sodium carbonate in a reactor and exposed it to neutrons until it became fiercely radioactive. They took it to Stonehenge by truck...
Smith: What I mean is-well, pollsters like Sam Lubell have discovered that most people aren't very disturbed by the depression and, God knows, a lot of businessmen think it will be over in six months or so without getting much worse. You know-not really cutting deep, not sincere...
Smith: Well, why not? If we try to solve our economic problems by shoving goods down people's throats through manufactured money and high-pressure salesmanship, we risk a deep corruption of the people, not just because they will be stuffed with goods they haven't earned and don't really need, but also because people eventually won't know what to do with them...
...hand, Soren Kierkegaard has led a return to the primitive essentials of Christianity by his re-definition of true faith as deep belief which not only is unjustified by the available evidence, but is irrelevant to all possible evidence or even runs headlong against it--belief which, is, in short, "absurd." The claim to have gotten "beyond" rational thought is a form of what Russell regards as the arch-vice, intellectual dishonesty. He would probably say that it is patently impossible to argue with someone who insists on Tertullian's Credo quia absurdum est. Such a case needs a psychiatrist...