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THE CHINA®- MAI THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1950.
ARE THE MARTIANS
AFRAID THAT
WE WILL BLOW UP?
W
E see then that the visitors have beon coming before how long before no
one can say.
We may add that, as they
are adapted to their cilmate
do not interfere
with
to
By Gerald Heard
ments would fall from
this
belt and make a real belt, huge mountala range of debris all round our equator.
rind The earth's
rock (called the Lithosphere) 戲曲 mentioned above, may not
of
bo
..
Chapter 14 of Gerald Heard's amazing › sorles of urticles on the Flying · Saucers- "Is Another World Watch- ing Us ?"- which he ex- plains the mys- tory of the strange visitors, whom he thinks are
real life- blood watchers
in
from another planet
Mars.
our
atom
sorts 01 There pro and, being very able, may be climate and a warm, if not generally mean the adjustment of the white blanket that wraps at all thick. It may be pas- explosion to burat very content, and do under- hot, North Pole.
one species against another; so, Venus is so uniform that it is sible with our modern
stranded asteroid, two sorts of for example, if there are many hard to be sure how that globo power
through it. stand how wonderful it is
meteorite. As these fragments, at well into your place, they
Thirdly, when we are with birds, the insect population can is revolving).
thair and be kept within proportions, but
Then, quito likely, out would dropping in out of their far may have been quite unwilling South African geologists
I so, it is a bad outlook for
away belt, drift by on are introduced the future of life on Venus, come our molten insides. to change places and have not they point out that nearly all if many cats
way to the sun, and get now the slightest intention of inter- the "erraties," the boulders of then the insects will increase. For as soon as the cloud lifts
explosion The famous
of and then captured by to then goodbye fering with us provided we allen strata, and often of im
But, evidently when wo get or breaks,
of Krakatoa (in the Dutch East gravitational field and so (1 them, mense size, that were
carried
development to the super-engineering we any further
Indies) gave a small but awe not burned to dust) first fall or across countrysides and now elther by invading them or by where they were deposited now employ, when above
all biotics.
namely impressive demonstra cur surface, they are found to lic upsetting the colar system
by the glaciers of Ice Age, low all") we start rousing up
Ason (or perhaps one should say "be- Because then one side will tion of what that sort of pyro- be of two types.
trust apple-cart from which they
Ono lithic-rock when we find these erratics
that draw as much as we.
Rock fragments South Africa all seem to stream the basic energy of all matter be baking like a furnace and technle display might be.
of дл There part
island, ments. along erly and loose atomic power; then the other far colder than any
and from- & northwesterly
the And we have seen, thirdly, down
refrigerator,
not which was volcanic, blow itself have been found to contain all edge "where night meets that they have very good rea- direction, that is from what we must take care.
equatorial At- now the
that we have here, and son for looking far more often in
The solid earth is not at all dawn-but a white hell" there into the ocean and the Pacific the minerals, all the element
other.. and far more carefully than
so solld. And long before we would be a tempest literally took up the challenge.
the they have been used to doing
start vapourising it we have to like nothing on earth as worn ourselves that the firm shreds of the torn atmosphere before, now that we are up to
earth is not at all firm -it were rushed and dragged from really big mischief.
spins.
the space-zero cold to a heat
For some timo internal heat which might well break up air and vast ocean had some ex- and scatter it out into space, citing rallies. But before the
spread
Why are they coming in such numbers now, no longer "as single spics but in battalions" Because we are a popil to them only sensible
the
lantic, it would seem we have a serious problem here perhaps best answered by assuming a shift of the poles.
But were that to, and could we tip our axle by aring off a bomb! We must remember it is a risk. For when the deep-sea firing of an atom bomb suggested as part of the Bikini exploit, a Yale professor emeri- tus of chemistry wrote begging To the moon that this should not be done.
secins answer.
Bikini
bomb
So if the bomb at Blicini had was
The gap
somehow
a
had
is
nor
(There is also a persists rumour that researchers b found in the hearts of th sky-stones and so perh protected from the
they
through go cooldag
through got when trying to our atmosphere-low bacteria But this has never been con Armed, for the bacteria may have been introduced since the "rocks" have been this earth and, indeed, whlie they were being examined-1 in hard to keep bacteria out 'when they are abotit).
ΟΣ
But if that is so, Venus spin- dispute
right has done us no harm, Nor
If, however, the gap been made a depth bomb and ning "on Its side" and not up- ratched-up pence was made. and lifted that mass of water is there any reason to suppose been large enough, there seems (as well it might, turning vast that even if that change
dispute little reason why the volumes straight from water to poise has taken place during would have closed as long as steam) then up the floor of the the time that life has been on there was fire not put out by But are wc,
He felt that it was clear to ocean might have come can we be £1
yot to (let this planet of ours, the change water and water peril to them?
won't
RD be all geophysicists that if alone the super-hot "magma" generations before we ket to alom bomb were exploded in from under the "thosphere has been at all harmful to us vapourised by fire.
Sk leaving aside (one
the beginning to think really in the depths of the Pacific Ocean the rind of rock that insulates temerarious speculation-men- Yet is not this-on a world- schedule terms of even going close to the Equator this would us from the infernal heats).
tloned earlier that in the last wide scale-merely specula to the moon. They will have give a maximum provocation
Then this sudden bulge on four thousand
years
Venus tion? Perhaps one day, planet warning enough And time to the earth to make a "hecl-
our belt-this rotational rup- skipped in in the form of a by planet, the whole solar sys- enough when they stc us launch our first synthetic satel-
ture could have sent us on to comet and took up her present tem will go pop. But it hasn't. gether and conclusion is hard another spin, another slant. station, Badly ruffling our tea. so far.. lite.
But the danger might 'much nearer and much more
emphatic than that.
be
A bad boy with matches out
In a barn that not only ad- joins your house but that
over.
Might buckle Whether this scientifle adviser there as she rather
oceanie ciently weighty we may judge, Another danger
13 raised or partly lifted, the atom bomb was never
ore
full of hay, is really far more an immediate peril than a burg- lar who is loitering half a mile away the other side of boatless river, only looking with idle covetousness at your distant it windows.
A
Seriously then we must ask, are we a peril
to them? Ia there anything In their past history to make them suspl- clous of their neighbours and of the harm a disaster to neighbour may do to them,
blast
Why, then, should Mars be Bred. concerned because we might
be
La it
ocean floor, already (or at the The project was abandoned. reel over and lile like a drunk Dr Ludblad, bad introduced to same time) having been given But (as the question with en man? Wo should still bo
#
buckle.
not our convenience but the our original orbit inconvenience our antics might sun-still cause Mars) even if we tipped miles or ourselves up and so ruined the orbit-path. world-climate for good, would the perturb gravely
hat
Martians?
the
The other type of meteorite is metal, nickel Iron.
Now put those two facts to
Turning point
1
ly escapable. For our earth i uncere. "But soft as old-fashioned constructed the same way-t coming dramatists used to make their rind of rock and a great hear was right or not we may never moniously hurried by,
of something that weighs exact ricke so late to the planet's party), romantic characters say,
ly as though it were For the weight of water that know for sure.
But that his advice was suit-
true and demonstrable that no iron. lies in the great troughs of the
greatest Pacific, the
planct has as yet blown up? depths in the
not. Certainly world, is so For though the surface great that if it were suddenly was proceeded with, the depth
As long ago as the twenties Swedish astronomer, the great
So it seems clear that As- astronomic world his, terolda was a planet like ours
of the Asteroids,
He And explosion tremendous blow, might which we are dealing now is apinning round In our orbit, maintained that they were the may well have marked tutor
life. two in
ing point in Marlian wreckage and flotsam of safe. 50,000,000 W
The theory It must have been a terrif We know that when so small
Mara exploded planets. BO from the an
and (but till then unfamillar)
mero of the sight; and with Mars, with so met more
of little engineering undertaking as the
problems that this welter
from cosphere to #creen
missiles, life mus cutting, of the Culebra Chan
There is, however, another planet-fragments docs prouse.
interna- have been like a bad air-raid nel was made (when the Pana-
Now, in the first danger which really might in-
conference! for some time while the firs ma Canal was being construct-
convenience Martians.
We tional astronomic might blow up.
hold since the war, it has been shower of the pieces began to d) then, to the surprise of the engineers, as this large mass
generally decided that there fall in towards the sun.
Martians, we then need argu of earth was removed, the ex-
• Dr Jeffries, who is one of was a planet on the orbit now, posed lower layers which were
rock-wreckage no further; might well Evidently planets
geophys Alted can get our most
all planets (come the size of islands c. strong views about planets tha Sky sul canal their poles pointing straight at cists, thinks that to be the floor of the
suffer from actually rose!
internal the asteroid called Cerea). It explode themselves. the sun. Uranus has a
moon may
elde, a world committing felo their has been called Asteroido.
de-se, is no private matter. that, as far as can be judged, strains--tidal stresses in The weight lifted from them, is in that, position toward
its cores.
And our explosion might b Tho they buckled.
so-called mother planet. And it seems to
more serious for Martians crust of the earth is a
Ho believes that the moon much go over the top of its mother
True, we should not let th springy
may yet blow up and present and balanced Flanet. The
What sort of place does it fragments of our big body and more balance precise
us arst with Bomo splendid
But we mig poise of a planet as it rides its thing than we have supposed.
And some astronomers have rings, such as Saturn alone has. seem to have been? First of all on them. orbit and spins on its axis and rocks on
We often talk of the balance thought that perhaps Venus so boasted till now, and then (not it is estimated that its size was them an even worse fur its poles-so giving of nature.
For, turning ourselves i But by that years and seasons and days and
wo spins in relation to the sun (for at all so nice) the moon frag- somewhat about the size of Mars, Being out still further from the
Just belt, filling our- mti sun, it would be as much "fur- bit with a thick, míst of nights which things in pro- perly mixed
ther ahead" of Mars as Mara is amounts
ments, we might ut "further ahead," later in its do- dangerously large amour necessary to life, as necessary
than we are.
the as air is to a man floating
all-too-little sunligh of this we have
now get.” the sca-that balance and polse is as delicate as-and scale for
evidence of a sort we cosmic cloud of scale may be more casily up- set than that of a ship.
We are all, on our planets, like men on small craft in a big ocean. We ride the but we have to be "sca-shape" to do so.
tide
Dre
си
We find it hard to believa that. But it is true.
always
Spin of Venus
eminent
White's Letter From Paris:
NAME OF THE GALE
Sam "THE
IS DE
PARIS.
GAULLE"
1
with
Size of Mars
direct
havo about no other star
OF KURZE into which, pur
oven
ran, i
now
none of our planets, not of the moon (unlóm the "tec- the safest explanation tites" are
off the moon by meteor
fragments colite Lam
last terrible Ico A59. lower the temperature
and rebounding on to us — 18 degrees, for us and we'd
your 430, the ice back-and then
There is some evidence that
dust may ay into the pole of our earth shifts
ready at any moment to One hallied it as moving in when someone throws a stone bye to our present civil fairly easily. We know that
NENERAL Charles de assume power" in his slogan. its grandeur and simplicity." the Magnete Pole 10 rocking and that the "third U. Gaulle is staging a re- motion of the earth" is its markable, political waltz on its axis.
Coal
cape
•
come past week has been hard
on mannequins and Paris THE reputation of the British back in France. Two de society generally. They have
for fair play received yet velopments Washington's had to cope with two gale another boost when - the 07- measures insistence on German re- film premieres, and in each ganisers of a cat show in Paris
armament and French
the gowns, jewels nd chose an all-British jury from re- fura have provided such the wives of British Embassy magnificent display that the officiale to judge the entrants: screening of the films seemed The reason for the choice was little more than a break in the that a British Jury would be the fashion parade.
best guarantee that
would be distributed of objec- maximum
There are, too, some evidences verses in Indo-China-have from reology and palaco-
given a sudden and strong hotany that would seem to show that the earth's pole may fiilip to his movement.. have shifted comiiderably, very seriously, in the past and in the not-too-long past.
the
·
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the With general elections to be The President of the Re- prizes held in the spring it now seems publie
(M. Auriol), the Duke with certain
that the revival of de and Duchess of Windsor, and
tivity." Gaulle's fortunes will continue innumerable stage and screen right up to polling day.
stars attended both galas.......
The General has scarcely
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of current noto in
only
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The coal measures at poles may be accounted for by the fact that when these men-
The first film shown was Parks is a 80-year-old sures were being laid down all the planet was hot and steamy mellowed after all these years the French production, "God Italian boauty, Fini Leonor, whu under a white thick coveriet. In the political wilderness. In Has Need of Men," 'one of the Has Just opened an exhibition a private conversation with a most sombrely impressive
recently he films of recent years, with a here. She says she is But when we find the mag- French, politician
terested in dealenth
ber **You will all be nolia and other modern type" said:
zwept
strong religious theme.
pictures have a "o
motif. of trees which like sun and away by a gale-and the name:
The other premiere was
has foresworn portrait warmth, when we find their of the galo is De Gaulle."
Anna Neagle in Odette painting and now paints only fossils in what are now arctic
823)," - Its screening "old bones and cats." She What is his programme? In (Agent rocks, we begin in wonder.
the present masochistic mood at
inevitably be. has 13 cats, all bearing natñes the Opera
an. Anglo-French ocho Fierce Love, Cruelty, Further, when we and. re-of a great many Frenchmen, Da camo
The fim evoked a Monster, Vampire and Cala. mains of the grapevine in Gaulle needs little else beyond casion. Lapland, again it suggesta * fervent patriotic appeal
exaggerated display comb. and somewhat
politeness from the critics.
---(London Express Service) very considerable” ́change of denunciation of politicians.” “I of
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MY GAIAN, HAS JUST SWALLOWED
of
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at a
wall)-secondly we know what the asteroids have,
and
30 Arterolda had, as their goo- logical structure.
Whiteness
(World Copyright-Lom
Express Service).
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