Show T ap 0 moon by atom k one mars and venus might also be visited through Diso discharge harge of radioactivity radio activity Shan ono conceivable means by which tile lioun us as well as mars and venues inight bo be visited to la through gli tile tho discharge on it large scale of u radioactivity radio activity and through tile tho solution of tho the problem Pr ot of tho the disintegration of matter into helium or hydrogen atoms tills this la Is tile belief of 0 dr Iler herbort bort Chut Chil loy ticy may 0 be ule life on the moon in a lecture before the quest society here recently doctor chatley said bald unit that the presence of 0 life on tho the moon would bo be a matter of surpassing importance but ns as yet there Is no very good evidence in its favor und and it seems almost inconceivable there can bo be little or no witter water there since no clouds uro tire visible thoro there Is also little or no air add to these facts the conditions that the days ore are 27 times its as long as ours and that tho the temperature pera per ture aturo at lunar midday Is greater than that of boiling water and at lunar midnight lower thun than that of the terrestrial poles and ll it will bo be understood that tho the circumstances aro are by no means propitious for life as aa wo we know it lie he explains can there then bo be life in fit same other form chemists are inclined to think that tho the very complex combinations which form tho the basis of our substance subs tunco are unique so BO that while it Is conceivable celva cei vable blo 1 that latent intent life may exist in a frozen state active life Is only pos between the freezing and boiling points of water having discussed tile tho question whether the moon was once part of tho the earth as well as tile influence of the moon upon the earth doctor shatley continued jules verne had idea speculative persons mostly romancers man cers havo have invented various methods methode by which they conceive the moon might bo be reached Bali balloons or airplanes are out of the question luce tho earths atmosphere thins out to practically nothing about miles up without that there Is in nothing to support them jules bernd imagined un an enormous gun with a shell as the lunar express return passage not guaranteed ny by tho the use of a very ong gun tind and n charge more than 25 times as heavy beavy its as tho the shell chell tho the necessary velocity nearly ton ten rollas miles per second might perhaps bo be attained but the ac acceleration colee would havo have tile unfortunate effect of squashing ashIng tho the pue to pulp just after they started which night impair their enjoyment of tho the trip rip 11 11 II 0 wells imagined a material called cavo rite which was imperil Im peryl to gravitation so that if it were placed under anything it would fly oft off under tile tho influence of tho the attract log 1119 bodies on tho the upper side his 1118 lunar ear car was a spherical box which had removable windows of BO that attraction in uny any desired direction could bo be used unfortunately tills this idea quite apart from tile unfortunate fact that no such aub subs stanco Is known la Is mechanically nie chani irreconcilable with a mechanical principle which may bo be popularly termed the impossibility of perpetual motion 1 if cavo favorito rito fil shutters lutters were opened and shut at intervals of time tho car would go up find and down perpetually petua lly without any work being done incidentally tills indicates a v very e r Y r re e mark ablo fact that flint gravitation la Is in associated with a continuous outpouring of energy G W griftiths provided his honeymooners in space with un an antt anti bravi tat national ional force this has haa actually been hypothecated ted by somo some physicists but there to la no evidence of its existence an american named god goddard lard has devised a large rocket which ho thought would do the trick but calculation cu lation shows that the most energetic explosives will not armco to carry the rocket very tar far unless the charge enormously exceeds the weight of the vehicle and in tiny any case tho the kick back velocity of tile the explosive gases Is too small email the only conceivable means Is by the discharge of radioactivity radio activity on a largo large scalo scale and the solution of tile tha problem of the disintegration of matter into helium or hydrogen atoms which would actually provide a means of visiting not only the moon rut also mars and venus this question Is bound up with that of the origin of the moon lind and there are anro various hypotheses tho the meteoritic theory regards them as tho the relics of a terrific bombardment others othera again hold that these enormous enor rings are due to the bursting of prodigious gas bubbles while a minority hold to the old idea of volcanic fAct action lOn 1 |