50, 100 & 150 Years Ago.

• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 290, Nº. 5, 2004, págs. 18-18
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article discusses three scientific events that have taken place 50, 100 and 150 years ago. The immediate brunt fell on a Japanese fishing vessel called The Fortunate Dragon, carrying a harvest of tuna and shark in its open hold. Caught 80 miles from the explosion, it was showered with a white ash of particles which blistered the 23 fishermen's skin and made the fish radioactive. A nationwide study was undertaken to provide as full an answer as possible to that intriguing question. A sizable number in each group appeared 'non-partisan' on the candidates' personal qualities, yet among strikingly large percentages of each group of voters, the General held high favor over Governor Stevenson. The Captain called it the 'Killer Whale,' and described him as thirty feet long, yielding about five barrels of oil, having sharp, strong teeth and on the middle of the back a fin, very stout, about four feet long. He attacks the right whale, seizing him by the throat, biting till the blood spouts, or till another' Killer' comes by and eats out the tongue of the tortured fish.