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Many scientists think that life appeared on earth when the atmosphere, instead of being its present mixture of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, contained methena, ammonia and hydrogen. These ingredients, still to be found in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, slowly combined into larger and larger organic (carbon-containing) molecules, according to the hypothesis. At last one molecule, a complex protein, showed the ability to absorb other molecules and create replicas of itself out of their material. This "Adam molecule" was the first life; it could grow and reproduce itself...
Miller set up a closed apparatus containing water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen. When the water was heated, its vapor circulated the other gases past a small electric "corona" discharge, which promoted chemical reactions among their molecules. This sort of thing may have happened on the primitive earth, where lightning was probably common. In any case, the influence of the electric discharge was similar to that of the strong, solar radiation beating down on the top of the primitive atmosphere...
Although a member of the Armed Services Committee since 1946, Cole talks as much about disarmament as armament. In 1950, he expressed doubts about the morality of the hydrogen bomb, pointing out that it is a weapon for mass destruction. He also doubted whether it was practical, asked: "Is it worth the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to produce it?" The same year, he introduced a resolution for world disarmament to be directed by the United Nations...
...that they were right about the course's toughness, but few call it uninteresting. Associate Professor Leonard K. Nash enlivens his courses by sprinkling lectures with graphic experiments. Tinker toys show the electron configurations of the elements to Natural Science 4 students, and Nash proves the explosive quality of hydrogen by turning a flamcthrower on soap bubbles filled with...
...count was made of people blinded at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; perhaps few people were looking into the sky at the right moment. If modern bombs attract more sightseers, they will blind them at greater distances than four miles, for they are far brighter than the nominal bombs were. Hydrogen bombs, say Drs. Rose and Buettner, will probably blind from as far away as they can be seen...