Show 'V November 5 1 969 m& Page 5 travel and research as well as more down to earth endeavors like w ’Gather prediction For research in aeronomy the study of the atmosphere the h State university workers have come up with the world’s most U-ta- d interferopowerful meter and the most sensitive field-widene- infrared spectrometer THE TWO DEVICES havebeen developed to obtain more exact measurement of the odd effects caused by: the exceedingly powerful tradiation of the sun strik -- ingthe gases of the upper This tenuous trans- ition region between Earth's pro- tective 'blanket of air and outer space is extraordinarily im' portant''' Power from the sun reaching one square meter of Earth’s e amounts to one kilowatt which"would be sufficient to heat a stove Ope square mile re- sur-fac- ceives three billion watts power sufficient to light 30 million bulbs The atmosphere perhaps 50 percent more energy including all Part of the absorbed energy provides the power of cyclones and hurricanes All the awesome energy of Hurricane Camille for example was indirectly supplied by solor radiation yet Camille's power represented only a minute fraction of the total reaching Earth 100-wa- X-ra- PART OF THE absorbed enexcites molecules of atmos-pheri- c ergy gases causing them to glow They fluoresce because the absorbed energy produces chemical reactions One outcome of the phenomenon in the vis-ible light spectrum is the aurora borealis (northern lights) but there are other equally interesting ones at other frequencies The new USU interferometer will measure these waves The other device developed at OCQZZ Hums no:la 3:11 - Three re- searchers- repprted Monday that “in contract to previous studies they have found that' the use of LSD does not cause signific?it changes’ in the users’ chromo- somes ’ THERE -- HAS BEEN concern among doctors and others over the possible damage to chromosomes the carriers of genes which affect heredity The offspring of 3L$D users might be born with physical or mental defects they feared1' The researchers said the results fiheir 'studies- - “would seem to sustain the' conclusion that : at i this: time there is no definitive'evidence that LSD damages tr chromosomes - of human -- white blood cells” However they added er research “Furth im this complex field is obviously needed” The researchers are Tjio PhD Joe-Him- of ithe National In quid helium degrees F only 10 degrees above absolute zero) Anything is printed the walls of the detector from emitting their own conflicting infrared rays is to cool them By doing this the instrument becomes more sensitive than its predecessors that it unfolds a vast new perspective on the ' photochemistry of gases THIS IS USED TO see that the surface of the spaceship is not reactive One of the odd effects of the sun’s rays is to turn a lot of the upper atmospheric oxygen molecules (o2) into ozone and free atmoic oxygen ) Ozone and atomic oxygen ) are highly reactive Quite you don’t want your spaceship corroding away and falling apart around you ob-vious- 'Walter NrPahnke Mp andPh-- D of the Johns Hopkins Univer-sit- y school of medicine Baltimore and Albert A Kurland MD of the Maryland PsychiaCenter' Baltitric Research ' more ‘ - They said one major short-comin- g “uniformly characterizsome ing” previous studies is the absence of adequate control measures “Most important the chromosomal aberration rate prior to the alleged taking of LDS was not assessed” they said “With the goal of providing a more definite answer we under took a larger prospective stud-y- ” they added They used for the study 32 patients scheduled to receive LSD as part of their psychiatric treat 'ment at the Spring Grove State Hospital Baltimore Thursday night The third of five seminars conducted at Utah State University by Dr James L Charley visiting professor of plant ecology from the Botany Depart ment of the University of New England Armidale New South Wales XftSfr2nawiir be 6 Nov at 1:30 presented pm in Plant Industry room 302 announced the USU Ecology Center Dr Charley will discuss Functional Organization in an Atri-ple- x New Community Semi-ari- d South Wales are presented THE SEMINARS each Thursday at the same time and location Dr Charley will speak on Nitrogen Turnover in a d Saltbush ComNew South munity of Semi-ari- d Wales Nov 13 and the following week conclude the series with a discussion of Soil Moisture: Stress and Nutrient Uptake fit a Gilgai-patterne- We dorit know much about bells on her toes Environment Semi-ari- d The public is invited to all lectures fftCSCNTS A JOSEPH JANNlPflOOUCTION JULIE TERENCE STAMP CHRISTIE PETER FINCH ALAN i the violent beauty of an immortal love story! But when it comes to Diamonds bates V for her iFinger We’re Experts ly Visiting doctor stitute of Arthritis and Metabolic Disease Bethesda Md at PANAVISION METROCOLOR UC Movie faOMAS JEWELERS Thurs 7:00 Fri and Sat Your ’Personal Jeweler J 6:30 gentle grouchy” was for years the publisher of the Atchison (Kansas) Globe and the wit and sarcasm that endeared him to his people has been put into print by Utah State University alumnus Calder M Pickett Mr Pickett collected the writings of this newsman and interviewed acquaintances to write the vivid account “ED HOWE: Coun- try Ed Howe Town The first circus in the United States was staged in Philadelphia in 1793 by a Scot named John Philosopher” emits infrared on The only way to prevent rays A 1944 graduate of Utah State Mr Pickett received his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Minnesota and is a professor of journalism at the University of Kansas account of one The 400-pag- e of America's most widely quoted editors is published by the University Press of Kansas “A kindly man even the paper this ‘ oi CHICAGO AAPh- -l particals of light hitting its lens Its improvement at USU is owed largely to the fact that the spectrometer is cooled by scarce liquid nitrogen degrees Fahrenheit) and its detector is cooled by scarcer li- (0-1- noiprekifed ?!- the spectrometer is a kind of mechanical eye which greatly little magnifies the photons USU (o-3x- thro eir t© tt ab-sor- bs account e Alumnus prints hr spm® memSi Two new devices developed by' USU engineers should help space - d§veSm fw ra§ss3®©fs d vim 400-Pag- & 9:30 Bill Major honored at ceremonies NKL m n we want an end to the beginning of' all wars” Ad- held here recently Maj- Gordon E Rose-lun- d was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorius service in Vietnam The presentation was made by dress - -- in i “More than an end to war At ceremonies Brig Gen B B Cassiday Jr commandant of Air University’s Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps Maj Roselund who was recently assigned to the faculty of the Air Force ROTC Detachment at Utah State University was responsible for many large scale construction projecfs at Phu Cat Air Base Republioc?f Vietnam The combat engineers of the Air Force to which he was Air Force with the capability to repair damage caused by enemy action or natural disasters and to construct essential airfield fa- cilities supporting combat opera- - Ricketts written-fo- v Day Dinner Jefferson r & Broadcast April 13' 1945 (President Roosevelt died suddenly April 12 at Warm Springs Georgia ) Gtoi!S YOU j and RADIO NEWS -- - Get involved & learn radio news Fifsthand- K"USU”-F- M -- Call 752-41- 00 ext 613 |