1955-11-12 — Page 6

Page: 0

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1955,

The CHINA MAIL presents a fascinating new series-the exciting facts behind THE GREATEST NEWS OF THE YEAR

OUT THERE!

S

this year, 1955, 3an takes a sudden surge forward on his greatest adven- ture the exploration of the Universe. What will be ind as he sets out into the unknown? WIE he meet other beings out there in the Rindfless space? Now when the more imaginative astronaute look at the sky they see the stars an leaders of planets that may be habitable, if nat adready inhabited.

RUT can we find a way to visit them?

Today mych in many parts of the world are grappling with the problems that must be overrome on mankind's JOURNEY TO THE STARS. They are building the first machines to lead the unstaught out красе. And today the China Mail leads off with an up-to-the- minuic assessment from the top experis on the prospect before an

a

MAN WILL LIVE IN A BUBBLE ON

PACE enthusiasts like to compare the present periched walke

e - kuten

Columbus, when Boro peans were abent 15 vault the Atlantic. Tac comparison I

11.

exact.

A TRAPEZE OF

by

JONATHAN NORTON LEONARD

kiw

D10

Columbus did not what he would find the ocean, bul he did have ships that would take bin there. The spaer men know a great deal about what lies beyond the atmosphere, but

They have at present effective shipm.

They

are

Jake Clubu who can see from the poutalanas of Spain the continents of North and South Africa, but who has only

a rowing boat to carry him across the Atlantie

Vesty Ha

, לוין!

somatiner

ין

ZINA

thank

1

setting of a mu

To mon into

k

widt

Then will on Where Joudest

Kompaty

SPEED'

rul exhausted, 1. 1.lk bank towned earth,

The susput stage them separ rel

canta mally keeping within the

1

Sing

ats orbit, and it is moving not

cirele hut in an ellipsi which will carry it eventually back to the surface of the earth. Up to this point the rocket)

flight Wis programmed auto-

matienily. Even vor Braun, who self-confidence of a The Teutonic denigod, does not be- leve that any raw can function

to clint vlively under the strains of low the shore luzes and search

the roaring

50

clever

#scent

and complicatest will have to keep

THE FLOATING ISLAND IN THE SKY Space Artist R. A Smith brings to ilfe one plan for a manned ratellite circling 1,000 miles up. A ferry tender transfers to the satellite a relief creio nut arrived by rocket from curth.

the atmosphere instruments fleus of the Mage confer

wheir steering is still possible. For to t

After 124 seconds of powered tie rocket on its course through deal lies between him and the point directly

wirigh 7 nhe toys with fuel, anal

Hand 2401 th 12 1

SOUN 2but less than the weight of a

bight tusen renkel anologs, in the fast slange will have a cutened therast o

14 900

which is espavaliant to the thpt 1 6,000 of the let 1 acest in the 1.

What is our tunediate hope welcome

for Invading space" The answer Y"l st¢ TE: {lta‘ lies in rockels, practical rockels that the shall who

is responsible for a large part of their development is to-

43 day only

years old

He is Hider's V expert, in JUR! s Wernher von Braun, works today on guided muadies in the vast arsenal of US A Ordnance that dominates Hints ville, Alabam

High Up

[1

Pesichert

The

SO

Its

Von Bratın ligures that about 15 trips from the surface of the earth will be needed to carry ap all the paris of a pernissent satellite station to it.

It will be a strange habitation, the rule bubble in space rup-

No object will remain in place untess is fastened Army, A slight push exerted against large piece of equipment will send

but moving

ng slowly steadily to the far end et the Toom.

The air will not circulate by means of convection Cur rents, for warm air will not be lighter than cold wir,

Around each

fuc in- man, stance, A mass of vitinted air from

will his lunga

slowly

the high point of its ascending their small rocket, and this must maneuvre the rocket will ported against gravitation on accumulate. Fresh air from the

no

whole countries and continents. with green and brown flecked with The bright white of clouds.

They muy

familiar places where they

Their craft will rocket will turn oner hved, but each man realise

clearly that a frightful that the exhausts of its motors

ahead of the thinning air and detach the

motion in the circling orbit. T postceful surface two stages at the proper

They will let the motors blast Most of the energy generated 40

Is moments.

13ut

when the third by the combustion of 7,000 tons for Rust long enough to reduce moving at 14.384 miles per hour

IN clear of the earth's ad fuel has been packed in the the

"by 1070 miles per The winged tited stage uses its

atmosphere and is approaching form of speed and altitude in hour, After this power motors for B4 sevends, reaching at attitude of #33 miles and at

hour speed of 18 488 miles per

The adors de cut off before

supply is wholly ex The racket's speed is then suffetent to place ! on th

hiptical orbit that rises higher ahul higher above the surface of the earth. During Uns rise, the pull of the earth's gravitation re- Orves the speed of the rocket.

It has reached alltacie of 1,075 miles above the surface it is moving only 14,770 This condition aptes per hour

unstable The rocket has not quite enough speed to keep it in

Von Brautt 1 ke 44 14 Curve endil at doins the aditude,

A the pinak of 219 miles

altuent

When Tangazon dati.

י!

evend sa 5,2 miles per hooter

will fire do

an

fuel, tim the hitape

ה

15

E

Quality

need not be expensive

• Automatio

• All stainless steel case

Waterproof

• Shock protected

Scientifically antimagnete

Price $140

• Same as above but with

14K gold top and stamless steel back

Price $200

SINCE 1853

1

EVER BEEN LATE BECAUSE

YOU FORGOT to wind your

watch? It can't happen when

you wear a Tissot automatic

the watch that remembers

cone to Ast

to pluzige diretly down toward is in Worst Ahead

y use

eve

be moving fast enough Jonger to stay in a stable orbit, I will a descenting ellfuse that will carry it in a gentle curve

05 down toward the edge atnwsphere,

Bubble

erew will be called all be dissipater before it can ellie, the

If the ship were upon for complicated action.

the earth friction with the alr and would turn it into a fireball. Instrumenta

Van Bruins admits that eareful observations they astronomical will check the position, course, maramuvring will be required to

this

eventuality. ayout

HI6 ani speed of their ship.

MAR strong. Then, by means of gyroscopes third-stage rocket

Around in swept-hack wings, and be pro- on stall dywheels spinataing.

poses to reach the earth safely will coast, purt the is maards they will point its

MUSE In The direction of the by lying through the fringe of desired orbat. When the heading the dinisphere and using it as is correct they will turn on the ocket's moters for 15 seconds, its speed to 15,840 teasing

per hour. Thir 13 the criticul སྐJHTx} Reeded to keep the ship 111 circular urbit 1,075 miles above the surface of the earth.

miles

Then the in cun elax, C they are in a mod to du su. Their ungeswered ship will cruise for ever, round and round the earth like a small moon.

the

Probably the crew mon will treat feel like relaxation; worst part of their trip still les ahead.

They will unload their (sections of a satellite station) and park It in spare.

will not fall, of course, or fall behind. If not pushed out of the rocket too hurd, it will fullow obediently on the orbit.

It is almost certain that the crew will have carried into space neollection of rabbits feet. St Christopher medals, and other magte talismans from the pre- technological past. These will be invoked ht that terrible moment when the rocket starts down again towards the earth.

1 earth below will look peaceful enough. The men will sco

the

الله

purifying system will not pene will rate of its own accord to

It will have parts of the ship. to be forced into every cranny by means of carchully contrived fans and pressurised ducts.

swinging trapeze of speed.

All conditions on board be novel,

Drinking water must be

the vapour that come cycled; from human tungs and human perspiration will be condensed Even and purliled for re-use,

wtil be friendly gravitation

absent unless created Lotally

Free Floating

The most bizarre effect of flick the earth the rocket artificially.s

of

will be on the gravitation meteor, part Lack of gravitation will have As its

on speed strange effects Hfe and crew themselves. airplane.

The crow will have to move on the satellite.

themselves pulling diminishes it can safely venture housekeeping

At inst Its Liquids, into thicker air.

for instance, will not around by

from handhold to To start This ticklish speed will diminish to that of a flow through pipes unless they carefully

bandhold. are pushed by positive pressure.

brake.

ANNUVIE,

Jers

in

the normal airplane.

The 'Filling station' in space

FROM the space travel-

ler's viewpoint the important Purpose of manned satellite will be an a "filling station" from which he would make the real start of his journeys to the planets.

The Hiling station" will br necessary because to fire a multi-step man-carrying rocket directly from earth to the Moon would need a structure weighing hundreds of thousands of tons.

But most of the fuel

of the rockhels will have to be used close to the carti, where the pull of gravity is greatest.

Д

satellite With

Just above the earth, about

CAVE MAN-1955

W

by L. J. CARTER Secretary of the British Interplanetary Society

1,000 milen up, the space ship will need to carry only enough fuel to reach i

From the satellite the space ship heading for the Moon WHI refuel from Blocks carried there by tankers, ships of a similar design. These tankers will be guided automatically to thr Katellite and will noi and the carry passengers

passengers

equipment would need.

What

look like?

By NORMAN LINDHURST

will

the satellite

STYLE

There is D

Heidelberg. brooks sat or dozed comfortably

hurrying about: EVENTY- three-year-old in the deepest part of the cave. the simple, wholesome life they Adolph Ellerbrook has pre. But no bombs ever feli close to end, Ellerbrook has never been he moved into the surry that pared for the hydrogen bomb in the isolated retreat.

The Ellerbrooks all three cave the year

that the Nazis a way many persons might well envy he has moved into a cave, are vegetarians. "None of us has came to power.

Not оліу docs Ellerbrook ever been sick because we never

quimals. In his mountain retreat, at the flesh of dead belleve he is immune to war we have never needed medical one bothers him. He is far re-

le piso ne 18

Immune to taxes and unemployment. Literally, he is attention, vaccinations and shols, moved from all talk of war and or any kind of medicine. Our the hubbub of everyday living jas free and independent any man can hope to be in this age, medicine is the raw fruit and in the villages and towns below. vegetables wo cat," said the elder.

to wind itself.

Just set it

and your wrist motions do

1

}

did.

A Tissot Automatic is

I

t

1

Crest Adolph Ellerbrook started digging his cave home in 1832,

He has built a large reservoir that catches rainwater, which

the work your fingers formerly

the modern watch for modern

men.

Tissor

All dielk 10K gold figurex

Tissot

set with

Contult an authorized Omega and Tregot dealer who has just the watch you need

to give a lifetime of pride wearing service.

Société Suisse Pour l'industrie Horlogère S.A. Geneva, Switzerland.

ats: OMTIS LTD."

OMEGA * Vssor

310 Gloucester Building :

On the heights a mountain

Drinking water is age

cold.

of 18.

saw There he

no

The view is excellent and the air clear on the lofty mountain the aften scans top, and he valley below through a power- Ellerbrook was an architor- ful pair of binoculars. The uses on the garden during tural student in Hamburg at the

Ellerbrook did not marry unili; dry spells. obtained from 0

clear animals being killed for food. he was 50, when he found

appetite for meat vegetarian soulmate. True to spring near the cave. He has He lost his dug the first 45 feet of a 70-foot because he believes that every is alike for doctors and medi- well, and the cave has a bomb animal has the right to live, not cines, he himself, acted us.mid- cellar able to accommodate him because he believes a vegetarian wife when his daughter was self, his wife and daughter Ute, diet healthier.

bom. A vigorous worker, Eller- During World War Two, when None of the family of three, brock has also made (by hand); bombs mined on the heads of drinks liquor, or smokes, or most of the furniture in the the villagers below, the Eller- stays up after dark.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

HERE YOU ARE. TWO MILLION IN CASH FOR FORTY PERCENT *INTEREST IN AUTH, THE

WORLD'S FIRST REAL ELECTRONIC ROBOT/

'POOR RUTH, I PUT HER HEAD ON BACKWARD AFTER I OILED HER. WE'LL START BUILDING A FACTORY TOMORROW--10 MAKE TILOUSANDS OF ROBOTS!

cave.

THEY CAN BE MADE IN ALL TYPES OF MODELS--ALL SIZES--FOR ANY KING OFJOB--OKAY, BOYS, COME AND GET THE

CASE.

Thers are several dozen

feasible denigrum. but con-

sidered opinion tends to the "cartwheel" design. the efrcle with a central hub

The reasona that male the wheel popular are the need for an artificial gravity and a light, strong structure which can stand pressure of PLA internal, artificial atmosphere,

SEALED OFF

This type of satellite w be Intended as a permanent will station, and as such undoubtedly be punctured by meteors a long inter- Vals.

be The wheel can divided by bulkheads, any section being easily scaled off in the event of damage.

The monin the satellite looking through the polar- Ised glass of the windows will see the spaceship that In to fly, to the Moon lying alongside them, apparently stationary, but moving with the satellite round the earth at 15,000 miles an hour.

NO SOUND TE

As the refuelling hose is drawn in, emali control Jets round the tall and nord of the rookat bring it into OOTITOL line with the planned course."-

A rush of fzme hundreds of feet long shoots away from the fall

''

There is no sound, for li space there is no air to carry it.

The rocket starts slowly forward, gathering speed rapidly until'in a matter of seconds only a small speck of light can be seen.

The first man" is on his way to the Moon.....

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

WAIT. I WANT HEA.

"LEFT RIGHT

HERG IN MY

OFFICE/

At first they may enjoy this sensation of floating through the alt, us in spaco m vles, but soon they will learn that free float- ing is hard on both bodies and equipment.

They cun sleep anywhere of course; their bodies will not feel the hardest surface beneath

them.

But they will not enjoy this sleeping on air that is softer than the flufflest mattress.

As soon as they pro

aRleCo the jet effect of the breath from their nostrils will propel them Across the room until their heads fetch up against a solid wall.

They will learn to prefer bunks, whero restraining stropa will protect them from involun- lary sleep-floating.

Not So Bad

more

Heavy objects can be moved with ease, and chairs need not be

but most padded,

spaco urchitects believe that some gravitation will make life on the Satelito station much picasant for the crow. So nearly all

designs

of space stations include a provision for creating a small but sufficient amount of synthetle gravitation.

This can be done by making the station revolve slowly. Then the crew wil feel the BAINO centrifugal force that is enjoyed by kida riding on a merry-go- round

For the crew it will be grand moment when the gravity is turned on. Thoir viscera will settle in place bgainst the pouch of their bellies. They can walk again without fear” that'

their skulls will hit the ceiling.

Their coffee will stay in its cups, and all the miscellaneous objects --

clothing, and

displaced bus, clothi

of soup that have been circulating in the cabin will settle to the floor The men will sit down at their desks with reliet and radio. to their girls on earth that life in a space station is not so bad after all.

(COPYRIGHT)

Mr Leonard's. article te adapted from light into Space". (Sigistch and· Jackson, 128. 8d.).

NEXT SATURDAY: What lies beyond the Moon?

RVEN

MAGICIANS

Carlsberg