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Another unknown that worries many scientists is the lunar surface. No one knows what the moon is made of, and no one can be sure what its surface is like after a 4-billion-year bombardment by sunlight, X rays, solar particles, cosmic rays and meteorites. The moon may be dust or solid rock, or something in between, like popcorn. It may be smooth or jagged all over. It may be radioactive or covered with highly reactive chemicals. It may have properties that do not exist on earth and that earthlings cannot imagine. A two-man spacecraft to land...
...Like many another young intellectual, Camus was fascinated by the all-or-nothing philosophy of Nietzsche, the notion that "since God is dead," life is devoid of meaning. Camus agreed that God is dead, but he rejected the corollary. He too much loved the passing moment, the play of sunlight, the delights of the body, to surrender them to philosophical principle. In fact, he loved life with a fervor that is even more apparent in his notebooks than in his formal writings. "Every year the young girls come into flower on the beaches," he wrote with characteristic sweetness about Oran...
...Britain's Nature, William D. Clarke of General Motors Defense Research Laboratories, Santa Barbara, explains a likely purpose of the photophores. The creatures that carry the belly searchlights, he says, live at ocean depths (less than 3,000 ft.) where sunlight barely penetrates. These waters are the hunting ground of fish with eyes that point permanently upward. What they normally see is the last faint trace of sunlight, which looks like a dim blue ceiling. When they see a dark and edible-looking object silhouetted vaguely against the ceiling above, they dart up and grab...
...moon-where power is in short supply. Dr. Thirring figures that after traveling from the moon, even the best-focused laser beam would cover a circle on the earth two miles in diameter. Even the light of a 1,000,000-kilowatt moon-based laser would increase the natural sunlight on this large area by only 10% . To do appreciable damage to one earthly city would call for a lunar powerhouse many times larger than any that has ever been built on earth...
...blood and skin. They suspect that it also increases the production of porphyrin. This is more than medicine has known before about the elusive disease, but it is still far from suggesting a cure. For Mrs. Carlson and her fellow sufferers, the only prescription remains to avoid sunlight like the plague...