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College Station, Texas Wednesday, July 1, 1970
Mars trip design
(Continued from page 1)
sources,” the associate professor
pointed out.
communications, navigation, air
traffic control, meteorology and
astronomy.
The shuttle for moving men,
equipment and supplies to the
station and back was designed to
carry at least a crew of two, six
passengers and 50,000 pounds
cargo.
Station design incorporated 16
self-contained and sustaining cap
sules 48 feet long and 10 feet in
diameter attached at one end to
a 115-foot long central tunnel.
Design of the earth-to-Mars
command ship was centered
around two Phoebus II nuclear
rocket engines capable of 500,000
pounds thrust each, The 176-foot
long craft includes—from nose to
rocket nozzles—a command mod
ule, spoked-wheel-type crew quar
ters, Mars landers storage, five
120-foot long fuel containers and
the shielded engines.
“The mother ship is the primary
vehicle on this mission in that it
must carry the most life the long
est time to the farthest distance,”
the report states. Thus all en
vironmental control, life support
and power systems “must be as
perfect as possible with at least
triple redundancy.”
Two Mars landers carrying four
men and associated equipment
each were designed. These would
descend from the mother ship’s
100-mile high Mars parking orbit
to separate points on the Martian
surface.
“This method will give more
information than one big lander
and insure that all would not be
lost if something happened to
one of the landers,” the students
stated.
The Mars lander was designed
along lines of the Apollo lunar
lander, except the 38-foot tall
vehicle is streamlined to contend
with Mars’ thin atmosphere. The
landing frame and descent engine
serve as the launch pad for the
lander’s return to the mother ship.
Surface living quarters are in
corporated in the stage to be left
behind.
A command ship trajectory was
selected that would carry it be
yond the orbit of Mars, enabling
collection of data on the aster
oids that orbit between Mars and
Jupiter.
“Another reason for this tra
jectory,” the report states," is
that by proper selection of trans
earth insertion data, the ship
would pass near Venus for addi
tional investigations on the return
trip.”
The student unrest and violence
which started in Berkeley, Cali
fornia in 1964 as a “free speech”
movement is predicted to go into
a new and even more dangerous
phase following the Kent State
incident.
I am not an authority on who
was right or who was wrong at
Kent State. I’m not a National
Guardsman who has to live with
the fact that he killed a young
student, nor am I a father who
has to bury his slain child.
But I don’t think violence is
the answer to anything.
The rights of free speech, free
press, and the right of assembly
are basic and guaranteed free
doms in this country and student
radicals should use them instead
of violence. When a march, dem
onstration, or rally turns into a
destructive mob those people are
in the wrong and other people
should hold them responsible.
Several students and faculty
members at Kent State wrote In
the Middle of the Country, a short
book on what they felt were the
events of the “massacre” at Kent
State.
Outlet for anger
Except for one article by a
professor who was against the
use of violence, J,he book was
j;- 1 mainly an outlet for the student’s
i anger and a means of making a
stab at President Nixon and the
“establishment.”
I don’t have the space to dis
cuss the whole book, but there
are some parts which I think
warrant commenting on.
Bill Warren, who edited the
book, wrote mainly on the im
morality of having ROTC on cam
pus, along with a professor who
wrote that the only thing ROTC
does is make “cannon-fodder out
of unbeknownst young men.”
ROTC is offered on campuses
for students who wish to serve
their military obligations as an
officer in the Armed Forces. It
is up to the individual to decide
if he wants to take military sci
ence courses in college and not
some other students who are
“concerned” about their “unbe
knownst” fellow students.
Student radicals aren’t against
ROTC because they think the
courses are detrimental to a stu
dent, but because ROTC is part
of the military structure of the
United States and our govern
ment, which the authors attack
strongly in their book.
Major points of attacks
Of course the major points of
their attacks concern Cambodia
and Vietnam, along with the log
ical and, in most cases, the illogi
cal reasons why we shouldn’t be
there.
Yet, most of the people who
are questioned concerning the stu
dent unrest say they feel the stu
dents have a right to state their
opinion about the war and the
government if they wouldn’t re
sort to violence. I would venture
to say this is the opinion of the
majority of the people in the
United States, in contrast to the
professor who claims in the book
In the Middle of the Country,
that the students who went on a
rampage and smashed windows in
Kent, Ohio were “keepers of the
national conscience.”
A student or any other person
may have a belief or an opinion
which is different from everyone
else’s. People will listen to them
when they discuss their beliefs
in a calm and civilized manner,
but when they resort to violence
the primitive emotions of a per
son take over and the actions on
both sides become irrational.
How to get close contact
“If one desires close contact
with the people, one must not
underestimate their understand
ing. One must not everlastingly
keep them on leading strings . . .
No organization, no propaganda,
however excellent, can alone main
tain confidence in the long run.
It is not by incitement . . . and
not by threats against the help
less part of the nation, but only
by talking things over with peo
ple that confidence and devotion
can be maintained. People treated
as morons, however, have no con
fidence to give away ... It is
time to join together in fraternal
friendship and respect for all our
fellow countrymen, to avoid dis
turbing the labors of serious men
and to silence fanatics.”
The above quotation is part of
a speech in the book The Rise and
Fall of the Third Reich by W. L.
Shirer. The speech was made by
Franz von Papen in a last ditch
effort to stop Hitler from gaining
power in Germany. Many parts
of this excerpt can be applied to
our times.
Farmer’s hopes can depend on outcome of this fight
Aphid lion, right, closing in for the kill on cottonboll worm
Insects help farmers
Pat Little I
(Continued from page 1)
Chel W. Lew worked a year with
50 different shell systems, ma
terials and means of flowing
them together with the filler
liquid to form the tiny eggs.
Batches of the synthetic eggs
are being experiemented with at
the laboratory and researchers
are now working with the seventh
generation of aphid loans reared
on them, House said.
Rearing the larvae on artificial
eggs would mean a cost reduction
to $1 an acre including the dis
tribution cost.
House said that in the future
an artificial egg will possibly be
used to keep a large number of
aphid lions in the fields after the
number of bollworms have de
creased due to their elimination
by the aphid lions as well as other
natural causes.
He explained that both insects
have a life cycle with the aphid
lions closely following that of the
bollworms. When the number of
bollworms decreases the eggs will
enable the number of aphid lions
to remain at a peak to be ready
when the number of bollworms
rises again.
Plans are being drawn up for
the design and operation of a piolt
plant for the mechanized produc
tion,of green lacewing larvae, and
the working out of means for
insect storage, handling and field
distribution.
The scientists hope to prove
the system good enough for com
mercial agriculture use by apply
ing from 50,000 to 100,000 larvae
Traffic engineers
attend workshop
Approximately 125 traffic en
gineers from five states will be
on the campus Tuesday through
Thursday for a transportation
technology short course.
The three-day traffic engineer
ing workshop is designed to as
sist the traffic engineer in his
efforts to provide the safest, most
economical and most functional
street system possible, noted Mil-
ton L. Radke, head of the Com
munity Services Department of
the Texas Transportation Insti
tute.
Co-sponsors are TTI and the
Civil Engineering Department in
cooperation with the Texas Sec
tion, Institute of Traffic Engi
neers.
Speakers will be teachers and
researchers who are involved in
the development of the new con
cepts which will be presented,
Radke said.
Emphasis during the program
will be on the latest transporta
tion concepts and technology as
applied to specific traffic engi
neering problems, he added. All
classes are scheduled in the Me
morial Student Center.
Workshop subjects include ur
ban transportation planning,
lighting, communications with
drivers, operation of freeway and
street networks, traffic design
concepts and panel discussions.
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per acre, at bollworm egg-laying
time, in a demonstration on a
large commercial farm.
Dr. Richard L. Ridgway, head
of the research laboratory, said
“chemical insecticides can and will
continue to be important tools in
the battle against insects,” but
work should be done to perfect
alternate methods.”
“The current cost for the de
velopment of a typical agricul
tural pesticide is about $5 million,
but we have so far been able to
spent only a small fraction of that
amount on the technique of re
leasing green lacewings,” Dr.
Ridgway said.
Biological pest control, he em
phasized, is a more sophisticated
technique than that of conven
tional pesticides and requires the
and of modern technology.
“I am confident that with ap
propriate resources, we could
develop this and many biological
techniques that will give highly
effective pest control and will
compete favorably wtih conven
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