Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spiraling Cost. Approached by a giant horseshoe driveway bordered by artificial ponds, the mansion glistens by day with $1,000,000 worth of solar screens intended to reflect the sunlight and reduce heat, and by night is an explosion of brilliance, studded from top to bottom with dazzling fluorescent lights that are said to attract most of Monrovia's flies. Because of the uncertainty of the city's public utilities, the mansion has its own emergency power plant, water supply and sewage system. Such lavish accouterments plus some eyebrow-raising financing methods explain why the cost...
...jolly good bash, in the best "sundowner" tradition. The big stone house on Kampala's Tank Hill swarmed with 180 laughing, hard-drinking whites clad in the most outlandish colonial costumes: solar topees and fly veils, pith helmets and mosquito boots. One girl came wrapped in a Union Jack. The idea was to spoof East Africa's rapidly fading tradition of Blimpism, and the guests had all been asked to "R.S.V.P. by native bearer in cleft stick or by tom-tom." Promptly at midnight the laughter stopped, and with mock solemnity everyone sang God Save the Queen...
Rare Reaction. Dr. Davis estimates that about 54 billion solar neutrinos hit each square centimeter (.155 sq. in.) of the earth's surface every second. They have no effect that is normally detectable, but if they happen to collide with atoms of chlorine 37, a small fraction of the collisions results in the manu facture of radioactive argon 37. When it occurs, this rare reaction gives Dr. Davis a chance to count solar neutrinos...
...tank in a mine at least 5,000 ft. deep to protect it from cosmic rays. Only neutrinos will reach the tank's supply of perchlorethy-lene, a cleaning fluid containing about one quarter of chlorine 37. Dr. Davis estimates that out of the countless trillions of solar neutrinos that will be passing through the tank, between four and eleven per day will react with chlorine 37 atoms...
First thing the neutrinos will measure is the temperature of the core. Astrophysicists now estimate it at 29 million degrees F., but the neutrino observatory will give a firmer figure because the nuclear reaction that produces solar neutrinos is favored by high temperature. If Dr. Davis counts more neutrinos than current formulas predict, astrophysicists will know that the temperature of the core is higher than they have guessed...