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SLEEPERETTES

IS ANOTHER WORLD WATCHING US?

CHAPTER 15

STILL GREATER PERIL AND MORE TERRIBLE

HERE

By Gerald Heard

la still a for the Grst time atomic further, and maybe a energy, then the gun did do far graver risk that something we have never seen before, we, with our ridicu- biggest spots recorded-monster every 11 years cycld of sun- that they had not enough pro-

It did produce the lously dispropor- things,

spot activity.

tionate powers (dispropor-

tionate to our self-controls), are running for ourselves and for the Martians.

somehow "rebounds," regathers us. They would find the mis- the electrons of which it has chief lying at our door. been robbed and once again the if it didn't? star recovers its size. But what

Byen if the sunspots had not raised the alarm, even if the sun had not signalled in so unmistakable a way, they must have seen our fatal signal.

When wo twice, struck, Japan and then, not to slaughter but to astound, Imado the Pacifo spout--when Wo, timo and

Orange Dwarf thunder heads of smoke, spray,

tection from the short-wave But of course our puny efforts

There is, it is supposed, an- We know also that they are deadly to life at least at the not infrequent. Instead of just rays from the sun that are other end to the story, rare but could NOVET affect such monster body-why, into one of is a very powerful magnetle stage we know

n'magnetic fields. Now the earth

it-and, any recovering, those spots you could put 20 of field. Its huge heart of nickel how,

the star may ex- insuficient force must plodo. our worlds laid out in a line iron-a heart perhaps huger make the high balance of the The little belt of mist and then they might not quite considering this globe's so living cell and of the gene im- which we could

posible by breaking down that create by stretch across it!

bent up, great · SUPER pulverising ourselves and

delicate organisation.

Novac,

the perhaps

and the wreckage of human leaving our coil and ring дл "trigger action" in the

There is, however, a far amazing phenomena of universe. A catalyst in

Industry and tho

human bodies, of smoko neatly to cut off part in a million, and indeed

greater risk, for greater than whole night sky, seem to be right up into the stratosphere, the Martian sunlight-that icss, can set off a completo reac-

just making the sun sterilisa all stars that suddenly broke all then we put out a finger to of us, yes, and give us "X-ray their bounds. And the stars beckon attention on any watch- blanketing procedure might tion.

burns" that would kill us.

which are most likely to do ing follow planet that we were fail,

We might-n fow of us, some that are precisely Cepheida..

the little fallow out for troublo, of us here and some of us on

and able and itching to give

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And yet there is such a thing

Vortexes

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one

a

Wo might disintegrate wholly

into such large от

A virus not a couple of mole- fragments as not to form a belt cules across can explodo of fog. And this is speculation deadly disease that will reduce

clear our future-perhaps

monstrong bodies (com- deduction for them with their pared with a virus) into a heap much greater powers of calcula- of decay. tion Brising from their far advanced knowledge of the

for the

powers we are now monkeying things, they

study sunspots, the actual

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Further when we come to

ore profoundly queer and also brofoundly speculation powerful "centres." They seem size than that of most of the to be vorteres, frantic storms other planets-makes it a very

moat

Mars--for in this matter we Further, among Cephelds it.

would all be of the game family there

-the

family

of life;

seems to be one typo *** which is most liable to explode.

and

all in the same beat, the polar That is the type which is called Time for action

rystem

being flooded with from size and colour on Orange super-solar radiation-a scanty Dwarf. Now the serious matter rcionant of us, of all life from lice precisely here.

Pulsing star

to

They could hardly have failed Get that deflant, wanton signal

With their knowledgy, with the sun showing such major spots, with their knowledge of

but clear observation may have that tear open the photosphere powerful magnet, and it is com- this, the second and far greater does well enough for us, but in nature of that furnace, of force

a far more perilous meaning.

Just at the very time that we chose to fire of our atom bombs

with very considerable wantonness, considering our abysmal ignorance of the con | sequences-just at that

than the sun itself chose to "act up."

VITY

scale of the

the two planeta on which it has Our sun is not only a Cepheld. Rchloved

emergence, might This has been allowed for some creep underground and escape. ' time. But also there is no

doubt it is an Orange Dwarf.

We had long faced up to the what those apote mcon, with matter that our glorious sun was their knowledge of what is the There would be no escaping not really much of a sun. It dangerounly delicately balanced

perül. But could there, he a the monstrous

we call our day-bringer, they greater peril? Yes. Just one universe it does not rank at all tould not have failed to con- more is more terrible. It, too, high. But only lately did we clude that the time for actions comes from the sun.

realise that though modast to had come.

-So we close for the moment look upon, it stood high, danger- The sun is, in technical lan- ously high in its possibilities, the question Why Now? It i puling star, one guage, à Cephoki-that is a

whose light No one knows when a Cepheid we who have decided why now

look in on us - anomalous fact that as on the ably its bulk, varies, fluctuates keenest hunts that is now going system should They are much penetrating than ordinary visible pound, a sanspot comes so that

more face of the sun, as the sun spina on some mysterious atomic tide. on in the night sky-to so it and ask us to be careful

there is any way of recognising light.

When a Cepheld explodes it They picrco into our it begins to face directly toward

These stars, which have been a pre-nova, a star that is ready turns into a mass of fame which atmosphere,

one of derange

first interests of and ripe to burst. all our us, its shapo changes often. radio, cauce, there can be little

Astronomera since they were This fact was noted as odd, discovered (for one thing they

-the dazzling blaze of fihme paratively close to the sun. that is the sun's outer "skin."

Could it be a trigger-piece in And then out of these the sunspot explosion rhythm? monstrous "gun-ports" there is Is there any evidence of this? shot intense short-wave radia Yes. 110a. They are whirlpools of

Observations made in Franco short-radiation or, as we used to in the Twenties socmed to show

time no less an important body call it, the light that is beyond what then stemed as a highly and radiation and, indeed, prob. will explode. It is one of the any one who cares for the solar

No denying

We know that the largest sun-

that happened.

light.

But we must remember we have no other way of finding out the connection of things

Yes, sunspots are no joke, than

They something celestial forces. by making

problem No. 1 in happen and then watching ali round and everywhere to

are

see -But we couldn't be provden-

sure? We do know that the

anything out of the common tive of such tempesta! Are we

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make the sunspots aller their behaviour,

COCOA BRASS

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tho

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races out at a speed that in a Does its spectrum show any few weeks has transformed, it

sets off this cosmic mino.

Warnings

apote that have even been seen doubt, all sorts of mutations in very odd. But it would seem give a way of estimating the shadows to forecast that blind- from a small, insignificant star on the face of the sun did ap the genes (the heredity-bearing to suggest that wo, though size of the universe, when the ing event? No one known What to one of the wonders of the pear just at that time. Was units in living creatures), pro- small (even when we are not usual way

is suspected to that something sky. But only a wonder to that just chance association? foundly

upact the

weather, playing with atom power as a

of measuring dis-

quite hidden and perhaps someone fabulously far off. We did this and then out there alter the crop yield and, maybe catalytic aid to cataclysm) de no longer serve for measuring catalytle may be the trigger that

tances, the parallelax way, will cause sudden ries of Insanity

such

Near by, for any planetary and hysteria by attacking our

vast distancea), theso

body of such a sun, the, display nervous system.

pulsing stars have also, it is

is a horror. In a matter of Lastly, the Martians have the thought, another thing to tell

hours during which the heat strongest wish that we chould us. They may tell us about the

would rise to deadly heights.m not increase the short-wave, nature of atomic force.

The sunspots may be warn the flame self would each us, radiation from the sun.

would probably They are supposed to lessenings of indigestive trouble as and the earth

an If Astronomer after astronomer and swell because, in the spots on our own face sometimes be vapourised has pointed out that one of the fabulous pressures that go on teil about our deep interior con- engulfed. reasons why it WEB hard to inside a sun, the compression lets. If so, the storm signals And there is no denying that pull of the planets does make accept life on Mars, even vege gets so intense that at last all have been lying doubly Bagged Cold universe when we made use of our for one of the causes which table life, was the fact that the the electrons are stripped from at the masthead since we began to try to make earth-spots with super-force, when we released bring about the periodle-about Martian atmosphere was so thin the atom-core, Then the atom

It would probably extend out our bomb.

as far as the orbit of Mars, and Is it not possible that the though Mars might not be Martians, who have so much to melted, all life, of course, would fear from sun-trouble, may have bave vaniched forever. read these signs? Why shouldn't Then the star that bas erupted they so far ahead of us and 50 shrinks again and soon becomes, anxious about sunlight have in many cases, smaller than t watched and studied our com has been. It seems that it often man luminary and life-giver, shrinks down till it becomes and know its fever times and that strange dwarf-menster;" a ̈ watch with anxiety its possible White Dwarf, fabulously heavy THE manager of the Had this sum been distributed The Board is now in a dilem which runs the Government ta- epileptic seizures?

come with density that woula Individual growers, store

Kumasi, at

there ma. They could afford to pay stead of the other way about. • On that ground-alone, on the make a square inch of the would have been a riot of in the farmer a much.higher price capital of Ashanti in nation. Already prices had the Gold Coast, looked up risen to absurd heights as

than he gets already. But this was. to see

What should have been done around that the spots have been material weigh

that the farmers so big of late, they might have giving out very uitlo Ught- in astonishment. The result of too much cash chasing would merely make rich men made a fair contribution to the sumed that some trouble was giving radiation.

too few

richer and start another burst cost of government and to the brewing. With imported goods. African

if any of the cocoa farmer

every increase in the cocoa

rising burden of social services. And knowing that the pull of planets survived the terrible peated his request. "I producer's profits prices of local

As it is, the only direct tax he the is can cause cataclysm, even if life on 'any are not want a brass band,” be Loodstuffs rose in sympathy, and enough gooday in the shops of pays is generally less than 21 ur thlanet-futures, the right of them could hide itself during said, and backed it up with the lot of the fixed income em-

a year. What a paradise for the the Gold Coast to meet de- ployees was hard. Civil servants; mands, but supplies were numbers a sheaf of notes as proof of from office boy to

farmer, of whom there are

ahould) have checked this hurricane of super fame 'top dogs,"

making doubled or trobled they would £5,000 a year!

£4,000 or aver the planets to see why their such life would only emerge out

into

a universe so cold and He paid found they could not live on

pull, their magnetic stress, black that death still not absorb the spending. £450, and eventually a com- their pay.

their ordinary atomic structure would take. African-and capacity of the

But the income tax machinery should have led to what is per- plete

band set of brass

To avoid making things the African is as good a spend is in its infancy, and the cocon hops an unprecedented distur- escaped death by incineration, instruments

thrift as anyone! WIS ordered worse, the surplus was pald

farmer gets away with it. As bañce in the piyat of the whole for him from home.

over in 1947 to a Government-

he can't spend more than system. controlled Board, not for in-

fraction of what he makes, he And then they would come to The cocoa farmer of the Gold dividual distribution but to be

hoards It. The banks he dis- Coast is well off today, for the administered for the benefit of

trusts, so he usually keeps his price of cocoa has risen from the cocoa industry as a whole.

money in bottles or tins which £20 a ton prewar to over £200.

are buried under the earth door

means

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to pay.

to

Enormous profits

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in inflation.

Even

Ten times more

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There is a limit, therefore, un the things the African can buy, and to invest in a brass band

tru

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is at least more sensible than of tris house or in the compound. Cocoa is the Colony's main

papering & room with one There are millions of pounds in crop, and the whole country de-

Before the war the price of pound notes or using paper hard cash hidden in this way. pends on it. When, at the ginning of the war,

cocoa had fluctuated violently money to light a pipe, as hap- there was no shipping to take cocoa from during the year, often from day pens quite frequently when the the ports, it looked as if the to day, and it was felt that the farmer gets his cheque for the

position would be year, But farmer's Colony would be ruined.

to more secure he was

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the British Government came to teed a fixed price for the

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Discaso throat

Perhaps one day, mouldering notes and aged coins will come

But if they do not distribute out of their hiding places to

the rescue, It guaranteed to buy the whole crop, whether it The Board took over the whole all their profit the Board has keep the farmer going, for over could be shipped or not, to bear buying and marketing, of the no option but to go on adding to the whole cocoa industry, les any loss on re-sale, and, at the Op. It pays the farmer less its surplus. end of the war, to pay over to than the market price and puts the producers any profits there the difference into the fund, so might be. The cocoa farmer that it has resources from which to payout; at, above, market was on velvet.

price if that world market Ogura should drop. In, the future..

Bad season

This will soon be ten times more than the reserve funds of the Colony and more than eight times the annual revenue.

And, being human, the far For the last three seasons the mer, rich as he is, would sooner After one, bid sconon, when Bound, by, Axing the price to the have more cash in hand than a large stocks were burnt on the producer, an G conservative strate price in the distant futuro. quays, shipping was found. De basis, has made enormicus pro- when the market: falls. So be mand for cocoa and chocolate nits, and its original capital la may become restivo and join in ixcreased as the war went on, likely, by the end of 1980, to, political agitation." and' prices soared. By the end, reach the sum of £00 millión

of the war there was an ac, 'or more,. Even so, the farmer The Gold Court has created, a cumulated profit of about: £20 has received- an: increasing; rate, monster beyond its control, and million, due to the farmers. for his cocoa every year.

It will soon ba the Cocoa. Podrá

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the shadow of 'wollen shoot," a disease which is spreading over huge areas and for which there is as yet no known cure. The only thing to,do is to cut down the diseased tree-and this the farmer objects to doing and to re-plant. Within 20 years cocoa may die out alto- gether.

Easy come, easy go1 is a motto which may well apply to the cocos industry of the Gold

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