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Show W0ULD BRING DOWN MOON Ambitious Schemes of French Enthusiast Enthu-siast Fortunately Never Brought to Conclusion. The electro-magnet, which is being successfully used in French hospitals for the extraction of bullets has man-, lfold possibilities. Recently the United Unit-ed States Steel company, by means ; n, electro-magnetic power, recovered . from the bed of the Mississippi a car- ic of nails "lilch had gone to the bot- torn. The magnet used in this case was three and a half feet in width and weighed three thousand pounds. The ease with which the cargo was brought to the surface gave rise to the suggestion that, given a sufficiently sufficient-ly big magnet, sunken submarines might be similarly salved at short notice. .Voout a quarter of a century ago a French enthusiast published details of a truly ambitious electro-magnetic j r scheme. By magnetism, he explained, the moon could be brought down to ' the earth, and allowed gently to rest on the Saharan desert. That done, it would be absurdly simple to avail ourselves our-selves of the immense mineral resources re-sources of our satellite. As It happened, however, the thing was never attempted probably because be-cause it was discovered that the mineral min-eral wealth of the moon would be a very poor substitute for the lunar t'es jf the ocean, the stoppage of wt;ch would tend to paralyze the wa-ter-.horne commerce of the whole. |