Word: liquidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distant planet is devoid of life. But just because earthlings could not live there, says British Amateur Astronomer Axel Firsoff, is no reason to believe that Jupiter is not a populous place. Animals might well thrive even if their planet is covered with a limpid ocean of cold, liquid ammonia...
Life on earth, Firsoff points out in the British magazine Discovery, is based on the reaction of carbon compounds in water solution. But liquid water is not entirely necessary for life. Jupiter is apparently well stocked with ammonia (NH3), and Firsoff argues that the ammonia would be as satisfactory a solvent as water for supporting life...
Just outside New Delhi, in low bamboo enclosures paved with dried cow dung, 400 Hindu pundits and priests have gathered this month to recite the Vedic prayer Gayatri Japan 10 million times. Night and day, squatting under TV lights beside shrines and ceremonial fires that they feed with the liquid butter called ghee, they raise their voices, powerfully amplified by loudspeakers, to the circling planets above. For according to India's astrologers, under the conjunction of the planets due early next month, the earth will be shattered by quakes, floods, air crashes, revolutions and wars, in what could...
...British are clods for their delay in decimalizing their coinage, you fail to mention that coinage is the only thing America has decimalized. It seems rather ignorant and inconsistent for a country that brags decimalized coinage since 1792 to retain in 1962 hopelessly antiquated systems of linear, dry and liquid measurement...
Dumped at Sea. The lethal liquid waste from the atomic bomb factories is stored in 34-ft. steel and concrete underground tanks on Government reservations at Richland, Wash., Aiken, S.C., and Idaho Falls. Idaho. Fenced and carefully guarded, it will stay there indefinitely. But much of the atomic waste produced today is, by AEC standards, lowlevel, and with proper precautions can be moved to dumping areas by truck or railroad car. To do the dumping, twelve private firms are now licensed...