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Writing in the planetary-science journal Icarus, Scientists William Streett, Harry Ringermacher and George Veronis contend that the Red Spot is caused by a huge solid chunk of hydrogen afloat in a sea of gases in Jupiter's atmosphere. How could a solid float in gases? The authors explain that the phenomenon becomes possible when certain mixtures of gases are subjected to high enough pressures. As one of the gases in the mix becomes liquefied and then begins to solidify under increasing pressure, a peculiar reversal takes place: the solidifying mass-like water turning into ice-becomes lighter...
Indirect Evidence. To substantiate his hunch that this is what happens on Jupiter, Lieut. Colonel Streett (a mechanical-engineer-turned-physicist who heads West Point's new science research laboratory) calculated the effects of high pressures on hydrogen and helium, the basic gases in the Jovian atmosphere. He deduced that if such a combination were subjected to several hundred thousand times earthly atmospheric pressure (14.7 Ibs. per sq. in. at sea level), the hydrogen would begin to solidify first, its density becoming less than that of the remaining gaseous mixture of hydrogen and helium. Physicist Ringermacher, then a Private...
Most important of last week's raids was staged by Major General St. Clair Streett's Thirteenth Air Force-a 2,500-mile round trip from New Guinea to Balikpapan on the east coast of Borneo. Said General MacArthur: "The advance of our bomber line now has made possible heavy bomber attacks on Balikpapan, major fuel storage center, with more than 3,000,000 barrels capacity, and the most important source of aviation gasoline and lubricating oils...
...Major General St. Clair Streett was relieved of command of the Third Air Force (Southeast U.S.) and sent to an overseas assignment. The first man in the Army to wear brass buttons on his O.D. uniform,* wiry Jimmy Streett has recently been concentrating on the training of big-bomber crews...
...Bring your own been and openers," says the announcement. "Ten Nights in a Bar-Room" is directed by Marla Forbes and Gorg Streett...