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Roald Reitan, 19, and his friend Venus Dergen, 20, of Tacoma, Wash., had been camping next to a good fishing hole in the Toutle River, about 23 miles downstream from Spirit Lake. They were awakened by a rumbling noise from the river, which was covered by felled trees. The pair ran to Reitan's car, but water from the rising river poured over the road, preventing them from driving away. Then a tide of mud crashed through the forest toward the car. Reitan and Dergen climbed to the roof of the car. That got them above...
Reitan and Dergen leaped off the roof and fell into the river, by now a boiling mass of logs, mud, pieces of a collapsed train trestle and what Reitan described as "hot bath water." Said he: "I thought we had had it. Venus was stuck between logs, and disappeared several times. I kept climbing over logs to reach her. We were lucky that the logs opened up and I could pull her out." The two were carried about a mile down the river before a family of campers spotted them and heard Reitan calling for help. It took the rescuers...
Moreover, as scientists look into space, they are finding that volcanism helped shape the moon, Mars, Venus and smaller bodies, like the Jovian moon Io. Says Volcanologist Martin Prinz of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City: "I can't imagine an earthlike planet without volcanic activity...
...safe and acceptable nuclear depot in the heavens. Three space engineers writing in the journal Astronautics & Aeronautics suggest parking the dangerous debris in an orbit far from any living thing, midway between the earth's own path around the sun and that of the neighboring planet Venus. Left there, say Claude Priest and Robert Nixon of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Eric Rice of the Battelle Laboratories in Columbus, it would never come closer to the earth than 22.5 million km (14 million miles). The scheme would also be cheaper than sending the waste into...
...earth and reuse on further missions, like the shuttle itself. Meanwhile, after a journey of about 160 days, another rocket in the nuclear waste package would be fired by remote control, this time braking the container and letting it settle into a permanent solar orbit between earth and Venus...