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...earlier day, Russia's Arctic force would not have presented much of a challenge to the traditionally superior, heavier-armed Western navies. But in the age of missiles, a warship is as big as the rocket it fires-and submarines may yet turn out to be the capital ships of naval war. Izvestia has already boasted that "the destructive power of rocket artillery reduces the significance of larger vessels in future naval war." Some of the long-range Soviet missiles tested in the past year were reportedly fired from shipboard off Kolguyev Island. Moscow says ''modern weapons...
...radio waves give no such information. Elsmore points out that the moon's gravitation is too feeble to hold comparatively light gases like the oxygen and nitrogen in the earth's atmosphere. Any gas molecules that hang around the moon for long must be much heavier. But the moon may have in addition a temporary atmosphere made of helium and argon given off by radioactivity in the moon's rocks and of other light gases escaping from the moon's interior or contributed by the vaporization of meteors hitting the surface. Elsmore figures that...
...AUTO EXPORTS are down owing to mounting gasoline prices, stiffer competition from foreign automakers and higher taxes placed by some countries on heavier cars. In first half of 1957 U.S. exported only 88,214 new cars, a reduction of 29% from...
...been off the weed for a year or more, his prospects improved; among men who had quit light smoking (less than a pack a day) ten or more years previously, the death rate from most causes was scarcely greater than among lifetime nonsmokers; ten years after heavier smoking, it was 50% greater-and markedly higher from lung cancer...
Measuring deep ocean currents was almost impossible until Britain's Dr. John Crossley Swallow developed a "float" (it sinks). Made of strong aluminum tubing closed at the ends, it is carefully weighted so that it barely sinks in sea water. As the depth increases, pressure makes the water heavier. The aluminum tubes resist the pressure better than the water does, so eventually the float stops sinking. It will hang at any desired level while a battery-powered transmitter sends ultrasonic beeps that carry for miles...