Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ocean that separates man from this self-knowledge remains to be charted. Crossing it will require money, dedication, ingenuity and the development of a whole new field of science and technology. The explorers of the brain have embarked on a journey even more significant than the voyage of Columbus in 1492. Columbus discovered a new continent. The explorers of the brain may well discover a new world...
Scientists know from experience what could happen if a coastal storm should blow up on these dates. Research Scientist Fergus J. Wood, of the National Ocean Survey, recalled last week that a spring tide of 5.2 ft. at Atlantic City in March 1962 was whipped by gusts of up to 70 knots and rose 9.5 ft. above the average low-water mark. Huge waves battered the Atlantic coast. The accompanying floods cost 40 lives and some $500 million in damage...
...City. As a director of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, he made a number of important discoveries, including satellites of both Uranus (1948) and Neptune (1949). When, in the early 1960s, other scientists were concerned that a spacecraft landing on the moon would sink in an ocean of dust, Kuiper correctly described the lunar surface as resembling "crunchy snow...
Between the cozy certitudes of 19th century New England and the savage, uncharted Arctic Ocean, there was a compelling connection. It was the bowhead whale. A fat, amiable, elegant creature who wound and warbled (in middle C) through the ice pack on his northward journey each spring, Baleana mysticetus grew up to 75 ft. long, weighed about a ton a foot, and returned fortunes to the Quaker entrepreneurs of New Bedford who sold his blubber and bones to make candles and corsets...
Potentially, shale oil is a fabulous fuel. It requires no costly hit-or-miss exploration, no ocean rigs, no precarious negotiations with foreign governments. Instead, it is a U.S. resource, locked in immense quantities-estimates range from 600 billion to 3 trillion bbl. - in rock formations throughout the semi-arid Rocky Mountain states. But no major shale-oil development could begin until the Federal Government, which owns between 70% and 80% of the oil-bearing lands, decided to lease out its deposits. That decision, in turn, depended mostly on how serious the environmental effects of mining would...