| Description | Thanks Dr Urey for his letter. Says that 'I completely agree with you that the Surveyor results are quite incompatible with a frozen lava explanation of the surface' and goes on to say why and to talk about objects that have been seen on the surface of the moon ('the so called rocks'). Also says that 'I have also never said that I believed it [the surface of the moon] would not hold the Surveyor or the Apollo, but only that this was uncertain … I regard the amount of sinkage that has occurred as quite within the range of slightly cemented powders … I have just read again what I have said in the past on this subject to see why everyone keeps assuming that a deep deposit of dust would make everything disappear out of sight. I find that I have always stressed in print, already in 1956, that vacuum welding will be important and that such a material will not flow. However, that I am not quite sure that it will be everywhere be strong enough to suppor [sic] the weights and that I would still maintain now. I quite agree with you that there are many signs of subterranian holes into which overburden has fallen and I would still be very worried about that also'. |