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...difficulty lay in the difference between percentages and total numbers. Many of the problems arising with regards to the desirability of atom tests lie within the realm of human values--whether one should regard 100 mutated babies as 100 tragedies or as merely a total misfortune of one-forty-thousandth of the total babies born each year...
...found in all human beings, regardless of age or geographic location s . ." The amount is not large. Averaging all the results together, they reckoned that the human race now has .12 micromicrocuries* of strontium 90 for each gram of body calcium. This is about one ten-thousandth of "the presently accepted maximum permissible concentration...
...proper kind of crystal, held in a magnetic field at a temperature close to absolute zero, should work as an almost noiseless amplifier. Naming the unborn device the Versitron, Dr. Strandberg predicted extraordinary powers for it. In electronic communication, the power of the transmitter might be cut to one-thousandth. The telescopes of radio astronomy might become so sensitive that astronomers would have to spend years digesting the records of a short observing period. No Versitron has been built, but Bell Telephone Laboratories, guided mainly by Dr. Strandberg's theories and those of Professor N. Bloembergen of Harvard...
With the aid of Bausch & Lomb tech nicians, Dr. Kapany made up several glass-fiber bundles, each of them containing up to a quarter of a million individual strands a thousandth of an inch in diame ter. So long as he kept the fiber's ends in the same relative position at each end of the bundle, he found that he could pass exact images through the flexible bundles even when they were tied in knots...
...which would serve as a shield against local radio noise. They also wanted a location far enough south so that the telescope's unsheltered antenna would not be exposed to wind, snow and ice. Green Bank filled the bill admirably. Radio noise in the valley was only a thousandth of the noise at the Naval Research Laboratory radio telescope in Washington. Moreover, Green Bank was distinguished by the fact that no commercial aircraft pass over or near it. Its quiet inhabitants occupied themselves raising livestock and dairying. All in all, the astronomers decided, there was no other place...