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...play has been very carefully and very excellently put together, and if well-produced it should have a great deal of power. But it will be the power to child and frighten, for there is not enough humanity in it to produce the tears that should melt Aiken's icicles...
Assuming that the proposed satellite (21.5 Ibs., 20-in. diameter) reaches a maximum speed of 18,000 m.p.h., Drs. Carl Gazley Jr. and David J. Masson point out that the temperature of its skin should not rise much above 2,000°F. Although most common metals either melt or soften at this temperature, alloys recently developed for the turbine blades of jet engines are capable of withstanding it. So should an alloy-constructed satellite. A returning satellite could not only show the subtle effects of cosmic rays but could also bring back with it pictures of what the earth...
Ordinary electronic equipment is prostrated by the temperature of boiling water (212° F.). As the temperature rises, rubber and plastic insulation melts, chars or burns. Glass softens and loses its insulating power. Metals oxidize or melt. Even without such drastic damage, heat causes changes of properties that keep the apparatus from doing...
...water is pumped into a low-pressure chamber where a part of it is turned into vapor; part is frozen; the remainder passes off as a concentrated brine. The vapor is then slightly compressed. This process turns the vapor into pure water and also generates enough heat to melt the pure ice crystals...
...Greenland and northern Canada do not grow. But if the Arctic Ocean were ice-free because of more warm water flowing into it from the south, a great deal of snow would fall on the cold northern interiors of Eurasia and North America, and not all of it would melt in summer. Glaciers would grow and march southward toward New York and Paris...