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Also you, in the present, cannot see the uture because it has not yet happened—and we are not optimists who think everything js ‘writ. ten’”’ and endéd, that all sctence igs in the books, The Earth travels around the Sun and the Sun is rushing through space at a high speed. We know this and yet such writers as H. G. Wells tell us that although they go back in time without altering their position (their real posi- tion) they find the Eatth a thousand years ago in the same place as it is today, or rather nov. Supposing you could go back in time you would find that the earth has not reached you yet and will wot until you reach your original present in which you were a few minutes ago ut which ig now in the future. I cannot see the necessity of Having, in “Rice's Ray,’ a vacuum between the walls of the ma- chine when they have millions of miles of yacuum outside. We know of the tremendous electric storms that occur on the sim constantly, Then, why were not Rice and hig companions electrocuted on directing the ray towards the Sun? Mr, Rice states that the revolution of Venus is of about 23 hours duration. Schiaparelli, how- ever, has taken its “day”: equal to its ‘year’ (225 of our days) and this I think is now taken as correct, I have read practically all Verne’s and Wells’ books and I suggest that you should pnblish “Men Like Gods” some {ime or other, I will not say anything against Dr. Mentiroso except that-a circle has two dimensions but as they are identical in length it is convenient to consider one only, It is true that some people have very little imagination but still I wish the inhabitants of Mars, Venus or a comet would not alsvays have a head on top a body underneath and the arms and legs at the same place as we have them. That_is the reason why I Jiked “The Men from the Pit” and similar stories. I don’t like ‘“‘prehistoric” stories as “A Story of the Stone Age” and I wish Gravity Nullifiers Sereens and fosve were explained in a more scientific and fuller way. R. A. Eades, 59 Petersboro Road, Richmond, Surrey, England, P..S. Do you publish all letters ‘in the “Dis- cussions’? P. S. 2. Please do not tell me that it is inter- esting how these stoyies make me think. [This letter is so complete that we have little toesay about it. The time you give for the rotation of the planet Venus, is generally accepted as pretty nearly correct, but it is more or less uncertain. Our authors have a great way of modifying human traits, which may be taken as belonging to planetary brothers, You see the development of the human system along curious lines which the author may select, goes to tell the story of his future changes, and of the development which some believe is impending for mankind in the direction of the enlargement of the intel- lectual clement jin his nature. But, unfortu- nately, some people think it is the other way amd that man is evoluting downwards. Cer- tainly the great war at the acme of our civi- lization- and the possibility, if not probability of any such contest, impending in the near future, are sad reflections on human evolution, Sometimes it looks as though the universe was definitely going in the wrong direction. We publish only those letters in these columns that are of interest to the majority. It is im- possible to print all letters—EDITOR.] « THE “COMET DOOM” AND WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN TO THE EARTH Editor, Amazitne Storres: Last month I enoyed “The Comet Doom? im- mensely, There is only one point that I am un- ‘certain about. The author states that after heing led out of its orbit the earth slowly returned to its path around the sun. This is not true, for, if the earth should slow up, as stated in the story, it would lose part of ils centrifugal force and the gravitation of the sun would pull at it with such tremendous power that the earth would plunge into that heavenly body. Even if the earth had been stopped the least bit, the sun’s gravity would pull the earth so near that lumin- ous body that life on the earth would be im- possible on account of the great heat. I would be very much pleased if you would correct me in any of my statements. Edmund Perks, New York, N.Y, [“The Comet Doom’ may be taken as correct in prineiple, but altogether incorrect in. magnitude. It would be hard to imagine a moon capable of causing cosmic disturbance affecting our earth without occasioning the ruin or destruction of all living ereatures. 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