Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Beebe said: "The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again...
...high-seas fishing fleet is the world's largest and most modern; many of its 4,000 craft fish for vital information along foreign coasts as well as for the creatures of the sea. The Sovi et Union also has the largest oceanographic fleet, whose 200 ships plumb the earth's waters for militarily valuable data on depths, currents, bottom topography and other information of interest to its ships and submarines. Says Admiral John McCain Jr., commander in chief of U.S. naval forces in Eu rope: "The Russian program to develop its seapower is more advanced and fully developed today...
Green has long believed that most of the major lunar features are volcanic in origin. Since volcanic formations on earth contain hydrous rocks, Green reasons, they may well exist on the moon. Merely heating such rocks to between 500°F. and 800°F., he says, will release as much as a gallon of water per cubic foot of rock...
...produced lunar pictures with black spots near the crater Aristarchus, from which astronomers have reported seeing a red glow-a possible sign of volcanic activity. To Geologist Green, it all makes sense. Sulphur is the most abundant of volcanic materials, he says, and wherever volcanic sulphur is found on earth, it is surrounded by hydrous rock...
...coup is now in the past. What of the future? For several years, radio antennas in the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and Australia have been scanning other galaxies, on the off-chance that some sort of creature might be sending signals to earth. When and if such a communication is established, it is certain that it will require cryptanalysts to read the message...