and
they had to chance their
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in a hole
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estimation about the thickness of the coral, which meant sore
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convinced they were
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their conce pt about how the moon was forred,
change about the age of the earth, which meant sore change of
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_PREMONT-SMITH:
[Laughter]
And this went on until
on
Yes!
they finally reached a fantastic depth of about 1200 feet
wow
om
DONALDSON:
And that includes the tides,
thick the coral cap might be.
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out of food and we were running out of drinking liquor, which
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everybody worried about because the supply vessels were bring-
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ing mud to grease this hole that they were drilling down into
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the atoll.
and they still hadn't found out how old the earth was nor how
By this time we were running
“y
.
The following year they moved over to Eniwetok and
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began to drill there and the element drilling went down toa
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total of som 4300 feet before they came to the basal strata
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on which the coral was anchored.
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FREMONT-SMITH: They did find it there?
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DONALDSON:
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Yes.
They actually found that there was
a bottom to this boundless pile of calcium carbouate,
a
The illustration I hope is not wasted.
But it's
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indicative of som of the needs to know in the netural environ-
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ment in which we are working.
ou
the seas are so imperfectly known that we son@tires find such
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great gaps in our thinking because we don't have the physical
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and biological paraneters upon which to work.
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ment of the Senior Senator from our State who repeatedly has
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made the statement that we know a great deal more about the
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back side of the moon than we do about the oceans that cover
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72 per cent of the earth's surface,
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background maybe we can be a bit more spécific in the things
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that we are going to te talking about,
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The seas and the =:tolls within
Like the state-
Well, with this as a
The tests were conducted, as I nentioned, at these
Stafford Warren
DOE/UCLA co
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