Project Mohole
Sir, —A recent “Financial Times” reprint suggests that Project Mohole could help test various scientific theories and advises us that the estimated cost of the project is now 80 million dollars. It seems incredible that such a sum should be wasted on a hole in the ocean floor at a time when America is in such a mess socially as it is at present. Surely it could be put to better use in building decent houses and attending to the needs of the sick and aged Americans whose labour has helped produce this wealth. Also the sums spent by America and Russia in sending up socially useless “rockets to the moon” are
an insult to the “producers of all social values." Do spent rockets feed the hungry, or holes in the ocean bed heal the sick?—Yours, etc., E.W.H.
June 6, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31079, 7 June 1966, Page 12
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143Project Mohole Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31079, 7 June 1966, Page 12
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