Word: undergroundâ
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would play a part in history." He boasts about running "the world's most sophisticated colored-gemstone-mining operation" and pioneering new technology like an optical sorter adapted from the recycling industry that is used to scan the shaft debris for overlooked tanzanite. Never mind that some systems underground???such as having workers hand-tie sacks of debris onto a pulley rope at 9-sec. intervals?seem straight out of The Flintstones. He's enthusiastic about the potential for mining companies to have a positive impact in Tanzania...
...other necessities completely from lunar materials. He envisages vegetables grown from seed, rooted in tanks of water in which the necessary lunar minerals have been dissolved. His moon colonies, complete with farm animals and factories, launch pads and lunar surface vehicles, and the comforts of home, would be located underground???in sealed-off caves and domes?to protect inhabitants against meteors, solar radiation and the extremes of lunar temperatures...
| 1 |