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...retrieve ancient ice, Army engi neers, led by Physicist B. Lyle Hansen, used a thermal drill with a hollow, elec trically heated head that melted its way down through the sheet, while leaving a 51-in. ice core intact inside it. Every 5 ft. the drill was stopped so that the core could be returned to the surface for study...
Only if there were some interaction between the two universes might it be possible to detect a Faustian galaxy, which would absorb energy instead of radiating it in familiar galactic fashion. The search for such a galaxy, Stannard suggests, could be made by a telescope equipped with a sensitive thermal device. If the device suddenly began radiating heat, the telescope almost certainly would be pinpointing a heat-absorbing Faustian galaxy, otherwise invisible because it would also be absorbing rather than emitting light...
...charged nearly to capacity, giving scientists added hope that the craft could be revived after sunrise on June 29. To conserve electrical energy, Surveyor sent occasional reports on its condition for only the first few days of the lunar night, then lapsed into silence, using electricity only for small thermal-control heaters, which protect electronic equipment that could be damaged by extreme cold...
...Gemini passed over the dark side of the earth, Cernan moved into position to prepare for his Buck Rogers-like flight in the jet-powered Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (AMU), stowed in the equipment section on Gemini's tail end. Struggling mightily, he pulled off the AMU's thermal cover, which had not been automatically jettisoned as planned after Gemini passed through the atmosphere on its way into orbit. Working with a check list calling for 32 separate operations, he began testing the AMU's propulsion and oxygen systems, pushed its arm controls into place, and prepared...
...second largest textile-fabric maker, did not produce a single consumer end product; now it makes dozens, including sheets, towels, blankets, stockings and draperies. The industry also has prospered as a result of imaginative research. For example, Burlington Industries, the largest of them all (1965 sales: $1.3 billion), sells thermal-lined draperies with a thin layer of acrylic that effectively absorbs cold drafts that sift in through window frames. Possible products now undergoing final tests in Burlington labs: a carpet woven with stainless steel filaments that will eliminate static electricity; a new drapery lining that by chemical action can control...