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...eleven fingers. But, what with the astrologers and all, even Kamthorn could never be quite confident, so that it was in the Year of the Goat that he first began to listen attentively when the local priest, Abbot Phra Viradhammuni of the Trai Mitra monastery, begged him for the thousandth time to help build a temple...
...such close tolerance that the human hand is often incapable of milling and finishing to exact specifications. To end one time-wasting source of human error, North American Aviation installed an automated "skin mill" to mill 1½-in. aluminum slabs into F-100 wing panels with one one-thousandth-in. tolerances, found that the robot millers could make a pair of perfect wings in 2½ hours v. 20 hours for a skilled machinist with a possibility of error. North American's new skin mill has worked out so well that the Air Force has ordered 48 more...
...Laboratories. It amplifies electrical impulses just like the vacuum tube, but is free of the vacuum tube's limitations-fragility, bulkiness, high power consumption, short life. The transistor needs no warmup time, saves space, weight, heat and power, lasts 150 times as long, uses as little as one-thousandth the electric current...
...moon, earth and spaceship all moving at high speed in their respective orbits, there could be no arrow-straight courses. The spaceship would have to be directed and launched so that its orbit coincided exactly with the moon's passing; an error in initial speed of a thousandth of a mile per second (5 ft.) might mean missing the moon altogether. For the moon's gravitational pull to take effect, the spaceship must first exactly match the moon's 2,278-m.p.h. speed, then slow down for a hazardous, involuntary landing. Too many space enthusiasts, says Porter...
...inventors, and there have been many suggestions. Most of them use electrical methods for generating intense heat in very small amounts of material. A beam of electrons from a linear accelerator, for instance, carries a good deal of energy. If it is focused on a small spot, perhaps one-thousandth of a millimeter in diameter, it will raise the temperature of that spot to many million degrees...