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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1935–

IS THERE LIFE ON THE PLANETS?

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to liquefy, belirum and hydrogen, Įbecause liquid. No Hfe can passi-

bly exist, under these conditions.

We camiot expect, therefore, to: find any life on either the very small or the very large planets. Those of medium size stand the best chance of becoming a home of life.

But there is another important. factor. None of the planets in the solar system has any store, of beat of its own. They are warm- ed by the sun, and there is an

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that each receives from the sum and the best that it, in turn, gives ost into space.

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Hence the nearer the planet to the sun, the warmer it will be Thus we find that, while Mercury is as hot as molten zine, the outer- most planets are so cold that the | Antarctic regions of our earth are extremely hot by comparison. It is difficult to conceive that life can possibly exist under either of these extreme conditions of tem- 5perature.

Looking at other stars, we find that some give out many thou- sands or even hundreds of thou- sands of times as much heat as our sun. If such a star has any planeta life could not possibly exist Ham-on them unless they were much &further away from it than the

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the heat given. out by the there can be no life on a planet belonging to such a star unless it

Venus And Mars

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bury, Botterdam, Antwerp & Hull limited region around my star "Sulking? No, that's not the thing. But, as things are. Marseilles-& London.

within which a planet must be right word. But I've got to keep better separate." Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-found if it is to be neither too hot quiet. If I don't I shall say She looked at him and knew burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hallnor too cold for life to exist. something Fm sorry for." Them, that she loved him more than ever, Bombay, Marseilles & London.

This condition, very much reafter a pause, in a low voice, as but because she loved him so much Bombay, Marseilles & London.

duces the expectation of finding though to himself: "These con- she wanted to hurt him, and be Bombay, Marseilles & Landas.

life on any planet elsewhere in the j Bombay, Marseilles & London.

stant rows are awful.”

cause he had said that he thought Bombay, Marseilles & London. universe: the additional condition

Her temper was rising again, he could get on without her she that the planet must be neither too another self that had nothing to was so angry that she forgot all small nor too large still further do with her real self, a stranger caution. Her love and her anger reduces the expectation.

to her and yet a very old familiar helped one another. The 1019 friend.

the more sho angry she became In the solar system, we can de- "Don't be so self-righteous." loved him.

"I know why you want to ser finitely rule out of consideration she answered, her voice trembling all the planets except Vents and a little. These quarrels are, PB-|arate,” she said. "It's because Mars Venus is the twin sister of tirely my own fault, aren't they you're in love with someone else "Elinor and I never quarrelled" (How funny, something inside the Earth, of nearly the same size SAILING5 and nearly the same weight, he said, so softly that she sareely her said. "You don't mean a word

It is rather warmer than the heard him.

of this'). You've treated me at Earth, because it is nearer to the "No! Because Elinor thought you have, and then you leave me.” perfect. She adored you- ***. not in love with anyone Singapore, Penang. Rangoon and sun. It is always covered with a

dense layer of cloud and evidently You've often told me. I don't else." he answered her steadily has, as we should expect, a con- think you perfect. I'm not, per "and you know it. But we are so siderable atmosphere.

fect either. But we're both got unhappy together that it's silly to There is little, if any, oxygen infants. I'm not the only one to go an silly. The whole this atmosphere, but there is an blame."

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She knew that if she turned much as in our own atmosphere. get

used to. now. We

that she realised that at last she What is the reason for this dif- don't know what's changed every had truly gone too far. She had the butler came in. Onslow was she would see Elinor's face, set lost him. She had not meant broad; fat and rubicunda.good white, remorseless. The woman gen in our atmosphere is due to

this She was frightened and her faithful butler with a passion for had always hated her, been vilely the extensive vegetation that covers graphic picture, what do we kow fear made her so angry that she church music.

jealous of her, "profecting her the Parth. This is continually about Mars? It is a smaller world went across to him.

wretched Herbert He 23 undisturbed, his cerr A certain vindictivenem seemed extracting carbon dioxide from the than the Earth and has largely

"Very well, them r" teu monial complacency clothed him to release her. She found that

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air and returning oxygen in its lost its atmosphere. A this at everyone... what you've been securely. stead The inference is that there mosphere there certainly is, exHow you're treated me?

her limbs were "M Fairfax has gone ous tree. is not as yet much vegetation on tending for fully 50 miles above

"Not another scene." he answer: she said firmly. Oh, surely he the surface. Water vapour is used wearily I can't stand any must see something, feel some down the passage into the hall

She passed to the door, It is probable that when life doubtedly present in this at more. Let's wait. To-morrow is thing.

Where would she be asfe? ́ ́ She first appeared on the Earth there phere, and probably oxygen also Christangs Day

“Yes, madam!" Then smiling thought of the Cathedral, where was not much oxygen. The first Mars is further away from the

He was so unhappy that her rather grandly: "It's knowing to right there was a card service. life would be primitive vegetation: Sun and therefore rather colder anger with herself maddened be hard. Never seen it harder here she opened the hall door and, fuss as this developed, it gradually than the Earth

She couldn't bear his sad, hopeless Shall I build up the fire in the In the equatorial regions the disappointment with herself, their drawing-room, madar

as she was, meeting the thick, brought about an increase in the supply of oxygen until conditions noon temperature is about 50 de life together, everything..

ing, making show, she ran “No, thank yo

But In a fury of blind temper The Fairfax's study. became suitable for animal life.grees F. But the thin atmos

phere is a poor blanket, and, as the truck him; it was as though she "Yes, madam I only

She started across the green Swamp-Dwelling Mainctles

Sun gets lower in the heavens, the were striking herself. He got up that as this room

towards the Cathedral door, Her The conditions now prevailing temperature rapidly falls. The and without a word left the room you might. And it chilly in the

thin black slippers sank in the on Venus are probably not unlike cold becomes intense, and the There was a pause, and then she drawing-room.”

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Whis room warm, when she was millions of years ago, when the about 130 degrees F. below zer left the house.

shivering from head to foot; but her mouth, on her bare neck be

tween her breasts inter Earth had a warmer and more The difference between the noon

She stood there, slowly gaming This room warm, when she was

"Help! Help! Help!" she wands sydney humid climate than it has now and midnight temperatures it

to her control again. When she shivering from head to foot; but and when it was covered with vast shout equal to the difference be lost her temper it was as though holding herself lest he shoulded to cry, but the

snow choked tween the boiling point and the she wank under water. When it sen. She longed to keeps him/her. Lights whirled about her.. was all over she came once more there. to implore him to main black eagle and flew towards her.

The Cathedral rose like If animal life exists at all on freezing point of water.

a. inge Venus, it is probably somewhat

to the surface of life, wondering but in a moment he was gone,

She fell forward, and even 23 akin to the swamp-dwelling mam These extreme changes of tom where she'd been and what she softly closing the door behind him the tall a hand, far colder than moths that once lived on theperature must be very trying for had been doing. Now she stood Then a mad longing for flight Earth

the snow, caught her neck She any form of life that may exist on there, bewildered, and then at seized her, and she could not move. We have left Mats for brief Mars

once she was aware of two things She was rooted there to the flour, lay struggling in the mow, and final consideration. Professor

Iss she struggled there two hands. Life has a wonderful facility one that the zoom was bitterly and even az, wildly trying to cr Lowell pictured Mars as an 272 for adaptation, and any life on cofl and the other that someone to scream, to shriek the home of an fcy fearless chil, closed world, inhabited by a race of in ways wu have developed by was in the room with her. - down, she found that only a little about her throat telligent beings engaged in a des-evolution to types suited to the This time the d not need to whisper would come, she felt the ward outline of a ring pressing perate struggle for existence prevailing conditions 3 imagine look around her. She did not turn coll touch of a hand They had constructed canals, that the Martians must live in at all, but only stared straight at She did not turn her head into her neck. Then she lay still, tending for thousands of miles, to dug outs, well below the warfare the curtained windows seeing her whole personality, all her past her face in the snow and the carry water from the polar ice or the ground, in which they will them very carefully, is though she te her poor little courage, her takes eagerly, cays, as they melted in the zum take refuge at night from the bit were summing them no for some miserable fortitude were amon mer, to the drought-stricken equatër cokl Itorial regions

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