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...Using these, Zwicky suggests, man could work wonders with lunar rock. The furnaces could melt lunar gravel and soil, which could be cast into bricks for building shelters. They could also be used to heat moon rocks enough to release their locked-in water. Even the proverbial pig's squeal could be used. Water vapor steaming out of the heated rocks could drive power turbines before being condensed into drinking water. When lunar water is finally available in ample supply, it could even be used for rocket fuel. Moon technicians will decompose it into hydrogen and oxygen gases by electrolysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOON: CAN THE MOON BE OF ANY EARTHLY USE? | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

WHEN THE doors opened and the men got out, the spell was broken--for an instant. After the silence there was a brief squeal of joy from wives and children seeing the man they were looking for, but then there was abrupt silence again. The men wore blue denim jackets with "USS Pueblo" written in faded letters on the back. They had blue denim caps and all were pale. They walked quietly, most without smiling, down the ramp and into the crowd. A few hugged wives and children, but it wasn't a wild kissing-the-soil scene from...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Remember the Pueblo | 1/7/1969 | See Source »

JOHN COLTRANE: EXPRESSION (Impulse!). To some listeners, this record may seem little more than an all-consuming squeal-in. Yet Coltrane fans will treasure it as the last one made by the great tenor saxophonist before his death ten months ago. What Expression offers is the fascination of hearing a man's agonizing struggle to draw some personal, ultimate meaning from recalcitrant music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 3, 1968 | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...dioxide out of the air. The carbon dioxide is combined in a catalytic reactor with hydrogen and converted into water and methane. An electrolysis system then decomposes the water into oxygen-for breathing-and hydrogen that is used to feed the catalyti c reactor. Reluctant to waste even the squeal of this chemical pig, McDonnell Doug las engineers are working on spacecraft thrusters that can be powered with the methane byproduct of the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Santa Monica Shot | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...exchanger, they are pumped through a scrubber, which rids them of harmful sulfur dioxide, and into the greenhouses, where they provide the proper level of carbon dioxide for ideal plant growth. "Like the old joke about the efficiency of meat-packing plants," says Hodges, "we are even using the squeal of the pig by tapping every beneficial aspect of this engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Diesels in the Desert | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

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