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THE CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
1955.
7
The earth is dying-so we MUST conquer The Black Yonder
ellolce: ET us face the most terrifying fact that modoris solence has rod. Contrasted with our own for smaller sin they are the will depend for their survival. For they will face this
to offer. The fact that lends a' strange argundy to the strapping, adolescenta among, the stars. But there are also to leave the earth or to watch their civilisation slowly dia, question of spson travel-the fact that the earth is already much older stars—stars which have dimmed into palo, spent Remember Thor Heyerdahi? Ile Kon-Tiki expedition simed beginning to die,
hulks.What will happen when our sun joins this inded, sonite to prove that the settlers of the Eastern Pacific islands once had a similar choles. On the South American mainland their As a home for human life the years of the earth are group? already numbered: Our mountains and valleys are merely A bleak; Aratlo twilight will seille upon earth even at civilisation was faced with destrdotion by Invaders. So ther
set out on rafts across the unknown Paolfio, brief momentary wrinkles on the skin which covers the raging the tropics. Lille will whimper to a halt. heat at its centre.
When will this happen? Not in our lifetime, of course. Nor for many thousands of generations. But we cannot doubi that the living earth will start to run down while there are still people upon it.
Life-destroying heat may seep through to the surface. The oceans too may rise once more. The land beneath your feet as this moment has been under the sea many times, and, some experia my, li will be submerged again. But we have one reason above all for saying that the earth is dring. We know that the gun is dying too. Our san is merely one star out of millions in the universe. Some of the others are very big and
These people will have developed a civilisation beyond the dreams of our scientists. But they will still be people much like ourselves, with our fears and passions, And on the space skills which can only spring from our ploneer projects they
•.
How will the human race abandon the earth? How will it manage a giant Kon-Tiki exodus into the black oceans of *pace? It will not be sufflelens to take hop to one of the planets to Mars or to Venus. Those planets which circle round our wun along with the earth will also suffer, from the son's fading rays. Win it be possible to reach Instead the planets of a young, but infinitely more remote, san? This article provides one answer.
interstellar breeding ship with a male and female crew,
When
it approaches a star that has suitable planets, dis
complex
the
and
Buch a Noah's Ark of space alarm bells will would have to be rather large, inhabitants perhaps as big as a medium- vigorous action, Its packed sized asteroid. There has boon machinery motors will come to
A NOAH'S ARK Y
L
ESS than a genera
tion ago nearly all ustronomera would
have told the space- travel enthusiasts to stop looking for another sun with planets suitable for colonisa- tion.
The universe, they would almost have said, contains nothing but stars and such unsatisfactory stuff as inter- stellar dust and Planetary
systems
gue. WETO
then believed to be exces- sively rare.
montern astronomery believe that most of the stars in
out
the sky are likely to have left jver material_revolying around them in the form of planets.
This newy which tricklost pracully
of the grea! vosservatories Juring the post Keneration, hos cheered space men no end. They can now look up at the sky 011 44 clear night Artd assume that each speck of light is by
surrounded
↓ retinue [ promising Hanels.
that
Some explode
IN
-Continuing JOURNEY TO THE STARS—by.
Jonathan Norton Leonard
red
مین
planets. 'The
white Nature's way of immortalising a dwarte are so old
and
foelle higher organism is the famillar thut the inhabitants of their business of sexual fertilisation, Pets, if any, must have frozen to death millions of years ago.
But after all these unsuitable stars have been eliminated, there are plenty of stars left in the sky that are placid, depend- able and single, like our
ur own kun. and many of these may have bevies of contented planets. When the moro imaginative astronauts look at the sky, they see most of the stark EL the leaders of planets that may be Inhabitable, if not already In- habited. Their next
stop, of course, is to figure out how to visit them.
They are invisible, of course, This is not cusy, for, as soon They give off no light of as a space ship leaves the polar their own, and they Bre too system
and heud for an allen close to their stars 10 be seen star, it must conquer not only Independently of them by weak space but time. Even the nearer reflected light. But when the stars lie enormously far away. light of certain. stars is carefully Their distances are measured In measured it fluctuates in a way light years, and each light year
Ruggests that
ome small is six trillion miles. If a space body is moving across the star's ship travels at 30,000 mlies un face. This is accepted as addd-
hour, which is a good round unal evidence that many stars speed in the solar system, it will have planets.
take at least 13,000 years of Whether these planets are
space sailing to cover a single
habluble or not is a more com-
light year, its
its crew will grow old Ind
die pitented question.
when the voyage has Some stars radiato chiefly in
barely begun. hard X-rays which would
be speeded tcar
Space ships can up, of course, but, even if they pieces any chemicals that are trying to
grow into the large move as fast as comels whipping complex molecules that form the around the sun, they will basis of fe. Stars that explode make appreciable progress to- wards any star within the life- periodically are unpleasant, too, and the enormous red giant stars time of their crew. are belloved to be so young that One solution of this difficulty they cannot have formed any k Nature's way---reproduction.
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The
OD debate among Interstellar life. Its telescopes will pter explorers about the mtaimium
size of a buman group that can preserve its life and, culture.
And a library
It should not start out with
ahead; its rocket
will
the
When it reaches relected planet, flerce task force of men and machints will be reakly to sally out and take
posscesion of it.
engineers nat
Noah's Ark method is by all the in-
space nalilve, and
and selentista whose offspring terstellar will degenerate into barbarians consider before the voyage has continued they bellevo that they know a more than a few generations, better way telescoping time by So the space ship will have have room for schools, a piele university, and a reference
contains all the impor
of the highest
human culture.
means of relativity.
a space ship, object, including moves at nearly the speed of light, ito ume slows. sall like a thousands
or
All biological material on thousands of earth years from After board will have to be recycled-- to star, but if its speed
star bawing fathered or mothered a that is Led Over and OVOT.
comes closo enough to the number of fresh replicas the Carbon dioxide from the lungs speed of light its crew will feel Dider
Individuals
dio,
of the crow will have to
that only a few weeks have material in their bodies returns separated into oxygen for
be built passed, by various routes to the common breathing and carbon pool of chemicals out of which into edible compounds.
A great deal of high-level ife is built. Thus, in spite of The bodies of the dead, of mathemation? thought death, the species is Immortal, course, will be recycled If they been expended on this problem,
For a voyage to a distant star, were disposed of in any other and the guring hus astronauta have proposed an way, such as burial in space, it both complex and controversial.
The promise hidden in the atom
by A. V. CLEAVER. Chief Engineer, Rocket Division, de
THE
THE rocket engine is a
form of jet propulsion which work" by throwing Its exhaust backwards. It does not push against the external air but, with its high internal gas pressures,
And dinat twolf,
E works best in a vast KLEEN.
The principles involved demand, sa rule, the carrying of two liquids, both called "propellents,' in separate tanks. One of these is a liquid fuel, such
parafin, as petrol, alcohol. The other is chemical rich in oxygen with which to burn this fuel.
OT *
For the present pro- gramme of research, end- ing with a satellito vehicle large enough to ostry a human
chemical drew. propellents should suffice. However, aven by re- fuelling from a miellite "filling station” and using the best chemical propel- Lenta soems unlikely that we should ever be able to land on the Moon, Mar or Venus.
Such voyages would be possible, but only with the ald of gigantio rocket ships weighing thousands of tons, because a great deal of fuel would bo needed to turn the rocket and slow it down for a landing.
However, there is likely to be a better way, more economical In human
effort.
It will involve the KNO of nuclear energy.
In any nuclear reaction A mass of particles dis- perse at high velocity. It
shail may be wo
learn focus how to
these particles in a given diroo- Hơn, so as to generate a beam or jet that would produce
propulsive thrust.
*
Alternatively, the nuclear energy might be converted into electrical power, to produce a voll- ago difference which could accelerate a propulsive Jo
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of charged atoms--liko
of giant version cathode ray-TV tube.
The most pressio way in which an atomic rocket could be made--and per- haps the most likely is similar in principle to the methods used in nuclear power stallons, and in the American submarine Nau tilus. The nuclear energy from a reactor is used to heat a fluid. This fuld would be expanded lo→ rocket nozzle to produce thrust.
It is more than probablo that nuclear rocket en- rines will be developed during the closing decades of this century, if not be- fore, and used in special vehicles assembled La orbita around the earth, several hundred miles out in spaco,
Fifty years from now, fantastio operations of this sork may well be regarded as we now view survoJE of the North Pole by fet plsues.
YES. I ALSO | LOCKED THIS
WINDOW. IT· ·· WAS UNLOCKED THIS MORNING!
'IT LOCKS FROM THE INSIDE NO SIGN OF A BREAK-IN-
has
became
would not be many generations There is no doubt, However, before the ship's stock of blo- About the dilation of time with logical material had been com- speed; it has actually been pletely exhausted.
checked experimentally. There should be nothing ahocking about this, the astro- 89 percent of the speed of light A space ship travelling with nauts point out quickly. It is could make the round trip to exactly what happens on earth, the star Procyon (which is 104 which is a large space ship with light years away) in
in 21 years.
a closed biological system. The But this is the passage of time bodies of people alive today are recorded by
mado of material that has been recycled many times.
All this sounds Acult and
sponsors
the space ship's
who have stayed behind On carth. Its crow
rather dif- would be convinced that they the astronauts had been travelling for only admit that it may be unpleasant three years, for the crew. But if all goes
well on the Noah's Ark travel-
Log through space at 50,000 Goodbye forever
miles an hour, its 146,000th
generation
Pleiades
can
coloniso
the
speed
A closer opproach to the of light would ot
To lesson the tedium of the them reach even more distant long dull voyages, some of the stars in Kryem less personal proponents of the Noah's Ark time.
method favour putting most of
the crow into a state of mis dilation system is that the But one trouble with the time
pended animation. A fow will
siny
sealed compartments.
awake for specified tours Voyagers would say goodbye over their forever to the friends, perhaps of duty, watching
to the civilisation, that shipmates, who lie insensible, even
and they left behind on earth, perhaps in refrigerated
If they rotun safely and still rensonably
fron young whole crew to alcop in this way journey covering 2,000 light
they will and t ∙and provide some kind of alarm years of 6nda, have, receded.
clock to wake them up wh
whitin
Into ancient history and per
It may be possible to put the
their destination
has
*a* that their
drawn
near, or when danger threatens haps that the name of the The silent space ship, loado alion that sent them out into with its genelle material of space has been almost forgotten, human life" and "culture, will, drift for thousands of millions
of years through the empty
• reaches of interstellar spECE,
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
THE COULDN'T UNLOCK IT FROM THE OUTSIDE.
AH-THAT'S THE "TRICK. HE USED THE ROBOT
TO UNLOCK IT FROM
THE INSIDE
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NEXT SATURDAY: ife on the planets.
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