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...RESIGNED. MA FUCAI, 57, as president of China National Petroleum Corp., the country's largest oil-and-gas producer; after assuming personal responsibility for a gas blast in Chongqing last December; in Beijing. The explosion, which released a toxic cloud of hydrogen sulfide that killed 243 people and forced the evacuation of 60,000 villagers, was blamed on insufficient use of drilling fluids and on the removal of crucial safety equipment. Ma, whose rank in the Chinese bureaucracy was equivalent to a minister in the central government, offered to quit several times before his resignation was accepted by the State...
...predicted that a number of mysterious mobile trailers found in Iraq were for the manufacture of biological weapons. These staff members were shipped out to the field to prove their hunch. Kay reported that several returned deeply upset from the trailers, which, it turned out, were for manufacturing hydrogen for use in weather balloons. "They said to me, 'I'm sorry we can't find what we told you existed,'" Kay recalled. Yet some analysts would not give up the fight. Kay told of a months-long tug-of-war between those back in Washington who believed and those...
...find accessible water on the planet, it will be very big news, and not merely because of what it means for the possibility of Martian life. Martian water, once purified, ought to be as useful for drinking and bathing as earthly water. What's more, since water is merely hydrogen and oxygen and since it's hydrogen that provides the propulsive fire in some liquid-fuel engines and oxygen that keeps those flames burning, breaking the two elements apart in a Mars-based fuel distillery could provide everything necessary to refill the tanks of a spacecraft once it arrives...
...that could blow up before it leaves the atmosphere. Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz says a plasma-propulsion rocket being developed in NASA's labs will go faster still, getting man to Mars in 40 days. Though a decade or more from realization, it uses magnets and abundant gas like hydrogen to produce acceleration...
Another good reason to go is the one disdained by straight-to-Mars boosters: learning how to live off the land--manufacturing some of what we need from soil that contains oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium and titanium, plus a dusting of helium, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon deposited by solar winds...