Word: krakatoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gangster yarn extracted like a rotten tooth from an old Harold Robbins novel. Stiletto seems to have been written only to take a share of the profits made by such stylish thrillers as Point Blank and Bullitt. And it quickly becomes obvious that Director Bernard Kowalski (who also made Krakatoa, East of Java) is not up to that sort of competition. Judged on sheer acting talent, however, Wiseman and O'Neal are equal to almost anything...
...their advanced skills, the sci entists of Cygnus made two important errors. In the first place, the signal they received contained no message at all. It came straight from Indonesia, where the volcano Krakatoa had erupted elev en years before, generating meaningless radio waves with its churning plasma...
Sooner or later, such reports always prove to be false, but the fictioneers go on. And rarely has their futuristic science reached so far into the past as the eruption of Krakatoa...
...explosion of the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa sent out air waves that registered easily on the crude barographs of the period. Big as the Soviet bomb was, its waves were far weaker than the volcano's, but the time they took to circle the earth was almost exactly the same: 36 hr. 27 min. Small variations in their speed were due to varying winds and temperatures. Carpenter is now putting the Soviet bomb test to unexpected and peaceful use: he is asking the world's scientists to send him copies of their barograph records so that he can study...