fifth sentence on page 161

fifth sentence on page 161

Apparently theres another meme-tag game going around. I didn't get tagged, but it looked like fun so I thought I'd go ahead and do it too. The instructions are:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

Well, the nearest book is one I happen to be reviewing, Return to the Moon (yes I'm really going to start reviewing it essay by essay again soon).

Turning to page 161, I find the start of an essay by Dennis Wingo, as well as an introduction to the essay by Rick Tumlinson (or is it by Erin Medlicott?). In the interests of completeness, I give you both the fifth sentence of the introduction and the fifth sentence of the essay. From the introduction:

But given recent initiatives to begin the development of a hydrogen based economy, the need for platinum, which is central to the workings of hydrogen engines, has provided yet another rationale, one which might trump all the rest in its potential value.

...and from the essay

While the emphasis by many has been on the potential for water in the permanently unlit craters at the lunar poles, that water will be best used to support the exploration and development of the metallic resources of the Moon.

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