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Fibers have enormous advantages over wires. Because they do not "leak" light as copper wires "leak" electricity, fibers should eliminate the cross talk and static that can occur when one telephone wire spills some of its signal into a neighboring line. Measuring as little as one-thousandth of an inch in diameter, the fibers are also far less bulky than wires -an important consideration in cities, where underground cable conduits are already overcrowded. Eventually, the fibers may also prove cheaper. Supplies of copper are limited; silicon, the chief ingredient of glass fiber, is one of the most plentiful materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light Conversation | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...galaxy's distance from earth. If the existence of the little galaxy is confirmed, it may be given a name. Until then, the hydrogen cloud will be known officially as 0627-15 (for its position in the sky). But the suspected galaxy, which has only one one-thousandth the mass of the Milky Way, has already been given a simpler nickname. Simonson's colleagues have decided to call it "Snickers," after the candy bar, because compared to the Milky Way, it is "only peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Peanuts in the Sky | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...different approach. Its aluminum-coated, plastic record, stamped from a master disc that has been etched by a laser beam, is covered with billions of microscopic pits. Variations in pit size encode the video and sound messages. For playback, a sharply focused beam from a low-power (one-thousandth of a watt) helium-neon laser scans the disc as it whirls around at 1,800 r.p.m. The laser beam flickers as it is reflected from the record's pocked surface, and the flickering is detected by a photosensitive cell, like that used in photographic exposure meters, which in turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Video in the Round | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

...Remember that time is money," Benjamin Franklin wrote in his Advice to a Young Tradesman in 1748. "Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on ... He that kills a breeding sow destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: The Clock Watchers: Americans at Work | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

Smith notes that the 65 million metric tons of fish caught annually represent only one two-thousandth of the oceans' yearly fish production. One way to squeeze more out of the sea, he suggests, would be to wean people away from the 55 most popular species and get them to try some of the 30,000 to 40,000 underutilized varieties - an effort that might mean changing the names of such potential delicacies as the cancer crab and the rat-tailed flounder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Squeezing More Out of the Seas | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

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