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Plus a course in the politics of southern Africa (professor: Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker), a tutorial on neoconservative thought (professor: Irving Kristol of the American Enterprise Institute), and a briefing on the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) by Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb. And all for just one pupil: Vice President J. Danforth Quayle...
Kirshner says one important reason to analyze these phenomena is because they are theorized to be the source of all heavy elements in the universe. When the stellar explosion takes place, it fuses all of the star's abudant light elements, like hydrogen and helium, into heavy elements, like iron. "There is a real sense that supernova elements are actually the physical origin of [the heavy] chemicals in our body," Kirshner says. The elements these supernovae create are in everything, he says, including "life, earth, iron and gold...
...forever. At the outside limit, the earth will probably last another 4 billion to 5 billion years. By that time, scientists predict, the sun will have burned up so much of its own hydrogen fuel that it will expand and incinerate the surrounding planets, including the earth. A nuclear cataclysm, on the other hand, could destroy the earth tomorrow. Somewhere within those extremes lies the life expectancy of this wondrous, swirling globe. How long it endures and the quality of life it can support do not depend alone on the immutable laws of physics. For man has reached a point...
Sometime early in the next century, solar enthusiasts hope to see vast tracts of photovoltaic collectors providing cheap electricity that can be transmitted over long distances. Alternatively, the electricity could be used to produce hydrogen from water. That could open up all sorts of possibilities. Cars, for example, could be redesigned to run on hydrogen, and that would produce a dramatic reduction in CO2 emissions...
Corey said the canister was small and the amount of gas released was only a few ounces. Hydrogen chloride is not dangerous in small amounts...