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RADIO-ASTRONOMERS OBSERVE THE STARDUST TRAIL
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BY JW. TAYLOR
DURING the war, the mums within the beam. To the Army Operational Re- layman. It is only a strip with search Group were set to dark surface;
elongated light markings on
to the experts, study mysterious "echoes" it is the whole history of the which occurred in radar sets meteor for the greater part of used to detect the approach they can deduce how fast the its short life, for from the strip of the V2 rockets menacing meteor is travelling and its London. They found that direction. they were caused by
meteors.
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Assembling such deductions, Doctor Lovell's men have been
the
And this is where Dr Ber- able to confirm what it took nard Lovell and his team of Dr Whipple, the famous radar radio-sstronomers come la with ploneer, five years to calculate, their pioneer work in the new on the basis of photographic science of radio-astronomy at obscrvation, concerning tho the radar plant at, Jodrell Bank, speed of melcors
of the Ger- 20 miles south of Manchester, minid shower. Through Their task туды to follow up centuries, astronomers havo the findings of the Army, which noticed
"showern" OC involved getting. and Inter- "streams" of shooting stars preling, radar echoes from appeared in definite areas of pieces of stone or iron as small night sky at regular intervals; as grains of sand hurtling at later, they observed that there 100,000 mph up in the atmos- was a relation between their phere.
appearance and that of the
that
"It is these specks of debris movement of comets, and this
from out of the blue, and led to the theory that they
SHOWERS OF METEORS
sometimes larger lumps of the were disjointed blis of comels" same stuff, that we sometimes tails, sce as "shooting stars" on clear, moonless nights. They come without warning from outer space; as they enter the atmos o far, the Jodrell Bank ob- phere, they are ignited by frie servations on the eta-Aquarid tion with its goo-molecules and stream of comels are perhaps burn away in its oxygen, pass- the team's most striking con- ing almost in a flash.
.It won The eye tribution to science, of the camera can tell tile known that one shower might
of
ot
the
end
"I hope to persunds Lottle, me in my sugar puss, to join New York, where I would give her one hell of
whirl. "I told her she would be my about them even at night, and be expected in May, another steady on account of my other
all about those towards Puss and Cutie nothing friends, Pep
July, daily ob- Cat, being quite old dolls now, which came, Invisible, by day- Twenty-four hours who have lost their Agures light. For four months of every servation by radio beam show-
cd that,
the four sum- through through hanging around the year the earth travels through chop houses for tidbits. When a vast cloud of star-dust. It mer months in 1947, these "This means that all paper where the parrot spent its a doll gets old and loses her has. probably been doing this showers of meteors were fall-
ing Into for thousands of years, but the ing
the atmosphere in currencies backed by gold are declining years shouting Insults figure, well, it's just too bad.
great numbers Sus-
throughout now worthless; that only food, to the King's enemies, cating "But so far, Lottie, won't put astronomers
pected the fact until scientists day. The same thing happened clothing, and sheller have any wings of chicken, and sur her trust in me.
using radur for the last year and, it is value.
rounded by admirers.
"Maybe she has more brainstorted
loved, this must happen every study of meteors. than I thought."
year, As the carth whirls through space at 18, miles a second, it runs annually into a slower-moving belt or strid debris, Abd the ets-Aquarid display on favourable summer nights is the visibic result.
Although, as a British parrot.
In the gutter. Intoxicated women "In Russia, it is thought that from the hotels and restaurants a fresh egg in New York will do not want to appear insular
screamed and laughed and blub- soon be worth more than a ton bered as they threw their gold of golë”-end flash. jewellery down the drains.
GOLD FLASH CORREC-
All the food atores, clothing TION-For fresh read state. stores, liquor stores, cafes, and
bars were closed and shuttered. Letter from a parrot All transport had stopped. All places of entertainment
Werd
shut. Most of the bewildered DEAR Sir.
police had gone home.
farmers wire
In the country districts armed guarding their stored grain, their cattle, and their poultry.
No food was being loaded on to the empty freight trains in the sidings.
There was nobody to drive the trains, nobody to operate the the signals, nobody to stoke boilers, even if the farmers had consented to part with their food,
In the churches the pastors were telling their kneeling con- gregations:
--"This is the great deliverance the deliverance from Mam- mon. Lift up your hearts, The darkest hour ta before the dawn.”
In Wall Street, the Temple of Marion, stockbrokers were shooting themselves so fast that
ht
What had happened? Hod Russla produced the atom bomb?
*
No. Russia had produced something
-
As a constant reader of
draw your attention to an item
I think this incident illustrates the vast difference between the British people and foreigners.
Hoping your wife and family are well,
I remain, sir,
A. Farrol.
never even
The
ELECTION TRAILS THE Jodrell Bank plant is partly constructed of War Once salvage. Its most impres is a bowl sive-looking part shaped mirror 200 feet in dia- meter, into which is directed
radio Intermittent reflected from it to the desired of stors part of the sky. As they rush pieces, or are the primal mat- through the upper atmosphere. ter from which stars are bullt
au
beam.
It is still not known where meteors come from originally; whether or not they are. bits that have fallen to
Party conversation
MARGARET'S father says it's all very well to build p naval reserves against attack by an aggressor, but what about building up whisky rescruca? He says unless we can rely on large an Intermi Yours faithfully,
stocks of whisky in another war we shall be defeated."
"My husband says as the your valuabk column, may i Paws across the sea majority of an enlightened elee meteors electrify the air mole- up. Dr Lovell cautiously agrees cules: In other wurds, they that findings seem to support of news in the daily Press which MANHATTAN MOUSER, New can't see how the Labour Party those minute "parcels of elec- are
torate benefit by Socialism he leave behind them a trail of the idea that meteor streams "closely associated with tinued to shout "Heli Hier" hos American play cat, left South- states that a parrot that con- York underworld tom and can lose next year."
trielty" called electrons.
comets". "They can only lose if some- It is in search of these elec- But to reply to the question vanished from the Munich Zoo? ampton during the week-end for body can prove that another tron trails that the radar beam where do comots come from,
will
the sweeps
Just as un radar observers are building up We live in difficult and dan-
more benefits which is going to scroplane coming into the bear body of information that is inen are once Kerous times when men ate
Reporters crowded round the be rather difficult."
of a searchlight reflects some new and vital. Besides meteors, more pernecuted for their be- famous
the ship before
"It's an odd thing that a of its light back to the eyes they are also picking up in lefs. In totalitarian countries, salled.
Socialist Chancellor should over-of the people beneath, so does their apparatus mysterious free deme- masquerading as
or the the electron trail reflect buck radio waves they did not them- cracies behind the iron curtain, Asked how he thought Britain tax, the wage-corners,
after spending useful people, in a community to the great mirror at Jodrell selves send out, waves that politically unreliable people dis- was recovering appear and are never heard of all her money to save the world and let most of the parasites go Bank some of the radio waves were sent out by no human again.
from slavery, Manhattan Mouser free." rald:
home.
cat
their
from Milky
composing the radar beam. agency, that have been travel- At the research station they ling for 100,000 years through "If you're calling me Although
space before making their re have devised an ingenious au- this is deplorable
doing Ane. parasite because Pve just made tomatle device on which meteors cord at Jodrell Bank Research enough,
"I think you're It seems to me even
eat some money on the Stock Ex-"clock themselves in". The Station. The data collected may you plucky people
from
the hei
help
GOLVO
the mystery of more deplorable that a parrot How
suffer should
for political those terrible meat puddings change, I would like to ask how impulse reflected back"
trail sets
they going the
origin-whether and stiti pou run an expensive car with electron and brussels sprouts opinions it never held.
from the stars, come keep smiling is the
apparatus, which makes a per- eighth out carning a penny."
nebulae as the "I was only observing that it manent record of what is hap- Auch Like millions of Germans who wonder of the world.
tho meteor every Way, or from the_space_be- were taught ̄ ̄to shout "Hell
-is-rather-an-odd-kind-of|pening--to-
thousandth of a second it re- tween the stars. President Socialism." the parrot of Munich Hitler," never knew why it was uttering Truman, who once tickled my Margaret's father points out this insane slogan,
cars, what a wonderful, hard that he said in his book, The working. patient, uncomplain- Bottle of Britain, that only a ing lot of dopes you are."
plentiful supply of whisky kept To the question: Did you meet is going after Dunkirk. many interesting people, Man- thinks history might repeat it- hattan Mouser repiled:—
self."
It heard others shouting and, being a notorious mimic, shouted with them.
Jar.
shall tell
Не
"I certainly did. First, I met "Don't let any Communist tell
"Then
TC-
THE WOMAN WHO DRANK
ATOMIC ENERGY
on
"That coll is perfect," he told me. "It works without a trace: of trouble."
it sounded like machine-gun fre. The only difference between The bodies of those who had left the parrot of Munich and the
By ERIC BENNETT their guns at home were falling German, parrots in uniform is from windows and plopping on that the parrot of Munich does Lotile, my honey cat and sugar you about Russia's peaceful in-
who has the swallest tentions now it has been that Hitler is dead, puss.
The passenger got in again pavements with the steady not know the
We had wealed in the House of Com- DID gamma rays from a
made its regularity of heavy raindrops and cannot therefore be aware chassis in the world.
mons that they began their big woman who had been: and the car before a thunderstorm.
that the slogan is now unpopu- a swell tire, belleve me.
After a second examination submarine buliding programme drinking atomic energy atop slowly to Cambridge, I met the British immediately the war ended." the motor-car in which she it was decided to at the car
is my buddy
with For all I know, there may be Ginger Cat. who
It ran home a new coil. "Brende kas in Russla parrots
standby. shouting and my rough house
spoiled every was a passenger? .
perfectly. "Long live Stalin" because they
extra egg they've had with her
That is a problem which
Mr Webber handed the old: have heard so
"But the most interesting cat filthy cooking/"
physicists and engineers have coil over to Mr Thomas Hal- many huma
I met was Mr Pussystein, who parrots shouling it,
has several other monikers and "I suppose it hasn't occurred been trying to solve since the ford, who runs a fleet of vans. Mr Halford examined it, put When history repeats itself, ns don't pretend to be British, but to anybody that the confessions mysterious affair of the car, the
Newmarket
the far more dendly to it often does, and Stalin and his certainly knows his way around at the trinis in Hungary have coll, and the girl occurred near it into one of his vans, and ran
Ipswich for 500 miles. the capitalist world. Read what disciples moet the same inte as better than the natives,
been achieved by mesmerism?"
Cambridge road. the first flash in a New York Hitler and his disciples, are the
"My husband still maintains newspaper said about it:-
"Boy, oh boy, what a cat that
when Mr Alfred parrots of Russla to be per¬
It began that the next war will be won by secuted if they are not told Mr Pussystein Is. He has
Webber, an Ipswich publican, "White America has pent when to stop shouting the wrong corner in salmon beads and the mesmerism sending whole na was asked to take a patient to billions of dollars producing slogan?
best ashcan ildbits, If you
tions to sleep by radio.”
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Com- want anything, from caviare on incapons to protect her wealth,
"Brenda's husband is the only bridge. Russia has produced a weapon A parrot of my acquaintance, toast to an introduction to the man in the country who likes
In her cottage at Pinmill- which has destroyed it over- hatched in Germany many years Prime Minister.
On his way out to the village lane, Chelmondiston, Mrs Wells, Mr Pussystein night.
of Chelmondiston his 1937 10 wife of a builder's labourer ago, was brought to England will fix it.
Lane shock-because On. Park
better than her filthy cooking" h.p. Austin ran perfectly. shouting "Hoch der Kaiser." where he loafs around in a
told me:- "The age-old dream of the
xury flat, they call him Mr
There "He is the kind of fool who
he picked
"I believe that I am the first alchemist has come true, White When the 1914-18 war broke Fixit, or the Contact Cat.
34-year-old tient. choose this time to sell
patient In this country to be we were making bombs with out, this
Blogan, constantly
Wells. The car began given radio-iodine for thyroid fire badly.
deficiency. I have it at the gold with it.
became an offence.
smart and a fast worker, but if "It's all very well to say holl- After some miles of splut Radiotherapy Centre at Cam- he is a jel-propelled aircraft I days for all when they've taken tering Mr Webber examined: bridge. "According to
official Bul, instead of wringing its am a hansom cab."
but away so much of your money the engine,
could find
"I drink it in the form of a statement issued by the Gov- neck, the folerant English Asked about his plans for the that you can't afford a holiday," nothing wrong.
colourless liquid. The first time. ernment in Moscow, atomie taught the parrot unother slogan future, Manhattan
Outside Newmarket the car I had it I was isolated for plies in the Urals are not able about the Kaiser, which was. Bald:
“Margaret's father warns the came to a dead stop. It was three days, and the nurses who to manufacture a ton of gold a extremely uncomplimentary to "I am a good-lime cat, and I Government that they must be towed to a garage and over- attended mo woro special. day at less cost than the pro- him and also caused a great deal have no plans for the future prepared on the whisky front, hauled. Mechanics could find uniforms and masics." duction of plo iron.
tavern except to have a good time.
no faults.
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would
even that 18
atomic energy, flussto has made repeated to loyal' Englishinen, - HI thought I Was pretty you some clothing coupons." to
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