Show 0 0 r givs ERS OF JUPITER ER WONDERS OF LIFE ON wo E 80 THE GREAT CREAT PLANET amt t tall ta and ln in pro lon garrtt artt P F seress Ser vl the me ram fm er on the pa so HOEVER lifts up his eyes to the starry heavens A these evenings must be struck by the F appearance of the great planet cupl hi ter shining outshining out all fc the fixed fit stars and t VA ud glowing with a rich yellow light high V y in the southwest abe e twin stars castor and pollux constellation gemini happy the who tho has a telescope with which to a lb e giant planet and to behold its V ese belts of alternate rosy and tig clouds and its broad polar rep shading to the color of blued jo ri po pm the earth up there in the place of war and the naked eye would with acuity b e able to see it jupiter is than the earth in bulk iw lines mes larger a TTO ume a and nd its surface area exceeds fai of the earth about times I 1 would seem as a if th the ancients must jure had some inkling of the fact that tiia tha planet is the largest of all the elds that revolve around the sun aun when bent they bey bestowed upon it the name of 0 tie the greatest of the gods we have almost no e evidence whatever touching of the nature of the materials of jupiter the spectroscope annot aid us because jupiter does not aine by its own light and the sunlight re reflected acted from it comes from the upper surface of its dense clouds and consequently makes no revelations concerning what lies beneath but the telescope shows that jupiter ii covered with wonderful clouds con changing in shape and more OT or less leg m color that these clouds float mano a aa sphere of great depth and tia orm perhaps successive lav clear spaces glimpses are am obtained of other cloud lands deep beneath filled with other strange hurrying shapes all whirling madly or on as if racing tor for a goal whatever else may or not be said mid of jupiter may at any rate it Is preeminently the world of clouds and winds and tempests can we then imagine inhabitants in such a world of turmoil and unrest as jupiter is it depends entirely upon apon what we mean by inhabitants it la is evident that such beings as we are not live there unless it is true that deep beneath Ju world of clouds and cyclones Is hidden another globe resembling the earth on such a globe so placed inhabitants more or less like those of this earth could live the great many storied dome of clouds above them would perhaps be just what they needed in order to obtain a comfortable degree of heat beat in their faraway far away planet for we must remember that jupiter is about five times as ae far from the sun as the earth is and that consequently the sunlight and the on jupiter are times less eff effective active than on the earth this is because the intensities of light and heat vary inversely as the square of the distance with a comparatively open and cloudless atmosphere like ours the heat from the sun would quickly be lost by being radiated away into space and the inhabitants of jupiter would shiver and freeze in a worse than arctic climate but with such an atmosphere as they have surrounding them it is not improbable that the effect of the greater distance of the sun may be compensated by the capacity of th tho atmosphere itself to retain and so to speak entrap the heat for the benefit of the inhabitants but all this argument proceeds upon the assumption that such inhabitants must be framed of just such materials possessing just such density as compose our bodies manifestly that assumption is purely gratuitous As we lave already seen the average density of things in jupiter is much less than upon the earth and we are not certain that its constituent materials may not be as widely variant in nature from those of our planet we have perfect justification then no 7 vt 9 THE ME STRANGE MONSTERS THAT PEOPLE JUPITER AS THEY WOULD LOOK TO THE EARTH PEOPLE LN IN THE LEFTHAND LEFT HAND CORNER LONG ARMS TO OVERCOME GRAVITY SEE FOUR MOONS IN VARIOUS PHASES t en of 0 varying density which may oe by comparatively clear paces mcm appearances have been noticed ro iter such as would be produced by bl the glia ilia dows of great clouds as 1 oad as some of our continents f falling ailing BOD other clouds floating hundreds of alies si es beneath them if these appearances are not decap te e jupiter s clouds evidently float at proportionally a a jar far greater elevation than those of the earth the highest of our clouds are perhaps ten miles above the earth the loftiest loft iest clouds on piter may mar be a thousand miles high and these tremendous clouds are sept along by belts of wind that are to less wonderful jupiter turns very 11 on its axis notwithstanding its fronnous enormous size it takes less lees than ten idars to make a complete rotation bile the little earth requires twenty four nr hours on the equator of jupiter ruing is flying around at the rate of if miles in a minute the resulting tri fugal strain is so great that the it at orial parts of the vast planet 11 ge and swell out thousands of miles piter is more than miles 1 dader through its equator ihan tough its poles ill things must there experience a kerful erful and resistless tendency burg 26 them toward the equator if the planet paret turned about three times taster faster itan ball it does objects would weigh noth 4 it all along the equator 7 ahe he effect of this f earful velocity of station lation is shown by the streaks and aes of clouds that the telescope re eals surrounding jupiter at one ace in the southern hemisphere there an immense mysterious flery fiery look S mass as large in extent as the ola surface of the earth which dur 5 the past eighteen years has been aist crust up among the rushing and dmn 1 clouds in one of the great trade sd d belts of jupiter by actual ob Iti tion Oll the clouds are hurled against he ae western end of that mysterious ob b acle cle until they pile up there in vast moving ra masses asses and are swept past it 1 n I gyrath gyrating currents and eddies ifft WT tely wilder and grander than the leape iza waters water in the niagara whirlpool sorge orge twitter and swifter fly ay the streaming dg as th the e equator of the planet la Is broached great globe shaped auses gleaming in the sunil sunlight glit roll rall la pitch in the mighty onward cur car testa through the for assuming if we choose that the inhabitants of jupiter are shaped from substances very different from and much more etherial than those that compose our bodies that argument would riot not in any manner affect the spiritual or intellectual side of their nature there is no demonstrable reason why an intelligent being might not be made out of something else than the water and carbon and other elements comprised in the human frame if we accept the view that the spirit of man which is the real essence of his being is of a nature and composition so fine as to transcend all the coarser laws that govern the visible world then is there any reason why upon a planet like jupiter such a spirit may not be enclosed in a body as tenuous as vapor even or as aa light as cork grant that and it is easy to see that no matter how much greater the force of gravity may be upon jupiter than upon the earth mortal beings could be formed even out of the range of natural elements known to us who might be suitably proportioned to gravitation even though they should attain a comparative para tive stature as gigantic in relation to ours as the stature of jupiter himself is when placed side by side with the little earth not only is there something far more satisfactory to the imagination in conceiving of gigantic inhabitants dwelling upon so BO stupendous a world rather than in thinking of them as mere pygmies pigmies pig mies but in thus considering them as giants amid gigantic surroundings we do less violence to the general order of nature let me as a kind of apology for thus venturing into the fields of imagination just beyond the farthest that lie glittering outposts of science quote what one of the founders of modern science has said mid about the possible inhabitants of another great world only less in size siw and which now also than jupiter evening s skies k es sat saturn url adorns our of sir hunphrey these are the words called the vision davy dalvy in the chapter in his beautiful consolation in travel or the last days of a philos philosopher 0 conducted by a guiding genius he Is hovering above the planet satu saturn rn be below low the surface 1 I 1 saw moving OU on the forms of which masses me ina immense I 1 find it impossible isible to describe they for lom locomotion motion similar to had bad systems ant I 1 horse hume or seahorse sea sem those of the morse saw with great surprise that they moved from place to place by six extremely thin membranes me branes which they used as aa wings their colors were varied and beautiful but principally azure and rose color 1 I say numerous convolutions of tubes more analogous 0 o the trunk of an elephant than to anything else I 1 can imagine occupying what I 1 supposed to be the upper parts of the body and m my y feeling of astonishment almost became one of disgust from the peculiar character of the organs of these singular sin u ar beings g I 1 be and it was with a species of terror that I 1 saw one of the them m mounting upward apparently flying alyin g towards those opaque clouds which I 1 have before mentioned 1 I know what your feelings are said the genius you want analogies and all the elements 0 of f knowledge owl to comprehend the acen scene e before you but those b eings beings who appear to you almost as I 1 imperfect m perfect in their functions as the zoophytes ates of the polar sea have a sphere of sensibility and intellectual enjoyment far superior to that of the inhabitants of your earth each of those tubes t u bes which appear like the trunk of an elephant is an organ of peculiar motion or sensation they have many modes of perception of which you are wholly ignorant and at the same time their sphere of vision is infinitely more extended than yours and their organs of touch far more perfect f act and exquisite their sources of pleasure axe are of the highest intellectual nature As I 1 annot u describe to you the organs of these wonderful beings so neither can I 1 show you their modes of life but as their highest pleasures depend upon intellectual pursuits so you may conclude e that these modes of life bear the strictest analogy to that which on the earth arth you would call exalted virtue if I 1 were to show ghow you the different parts of the surface of this planet you would see marvelous results of the powers possessed by those highly intellectual beings and of the wonderful manner in which they have applied and modified matter inspired by the enthusiasm of sir humphrey may we not imagine that the inhabitants of jupiter might surpass even those of saturn on their intellectual n tel side shedding a spiritual illumination among their aerial man which would be the greatest of all Ju marvels to the wandering visitor from our dim speck the earth GARRETT P SERVISS |