Word: fissioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formulate a God, he seems to be everything from a celestial gas to a kind of invisible honorary president "out there" in space, well beyond range of the astronauts. A young Washington scientist suggests that "God, if anything, is hydrogen and carbon. Then again, he might be thermonuclear fission, since that's what makes life on this planet possible." To a streetwalker in Tel Aviv...
...interaction of variables. Rand uses the "Delphi" method, in which a wide range of experts are queried and re-queried for their forecasts, arriving finally at a near-consensus. Prognosticators concede that the timing and nature of pure inventions or basic breakthroughs-such as the achievement of atomic fission-are not predictable. In many cases, they must still rely on "imaginings...
...heat radiation into space. The germanium-silicon combination is "thermoelectric," it changes heat to electricity, and the difference between the two temperatures caused a faint current to flow. That current added up to about 650 watts-hardly enough to run a household toaster-but it was the first fission energy to be generated in space. Hitched to a more efficient converter, said the AEC, the same reactor could generate "some tens of kilowatts...
Breathing, too, is growing steadily more perilous. Said Johnson: "This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale," by gas, coal and oil fumes as well as by nuclear fission. The 1966 budget under the Clean Air Act will be $24 million-almost double what it was when the law was enacted two years ago. Even so, the President feels that the act needs strengthening to permit the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare "to investigate potential air-pollution problems before pollution happens...
Bacteria normally multiply by sexless fission-they simply split in two. Still, scientists believe that some kinds of bacteria occasionally manage a kind of sexual mating. It is almost impossible to catch them in the act, though, because they have no special sex organs, and often when they cling together it is not for love. But at least one kind of microscopic bug has a sex life with a difference. Professors Pavel Nemec and Vojtech Bystricky of the Slovak Polytechnical University in Bratislava report that the Caulobacter, a harmless bacterium found in soil, possesses a multi-purpose organ that...