. aaenee ‘_ ) -BNBUD eq Gur own backyard is, after all, 3,000 miles in one dimension. Ian't that a fair sample of the world? LIBBY: Yo, IT doubt 1% because the world is so muoh bigger than that. Take the equatorial regions, we don't have repressntatives there. The equatorial regions represent half the world's surface and we don't have much ef it, you mow. They have great rainfall ia this area and most likely if it is upetairs a large fraction of the precipitation osours in these equatorial regions. that there are abundant arguments fer it. I think I think that it is true that we would certainly take more samples in this country than in any other continent. We mustn't slip into the notion that because it is more convenient that this assay vould suffice. I doen't beliewe it will. LONG: T wonder somewhat though whether this isa « terribly Lorertant question for this cenference though. Theat is, if you are operating in the league of the pre-pilot and pilot queries it seems to me that in that league you can ouild a very sound case for operation. LISBY: Well, I will answer that in the following way; it is « question ef whether you will operate at all or not. wh It is a question as to whether you are interested in Gabriel ae sich. Nobody is interested in analysing a few isolates cone samplers just for the fun of it. People will do this because they are interested in the Gabriel project, so if you don't keep the general purpose of it in mind you are not evan going to get the pilot action. . That is why Strontium 90 has never bern assayed. any reason to do it. Nebody has had It ien't useful to Srence in getting radio- chemical yields so it a qummmmmmtees ; . POE ARCHIVES