Show 1 WHY IS A COMET t ANSWER ANS ViER BECAUSE Astronomer Gives His Theory Concerning Eccentric Si Sidereal Sidereal dereal Travelers EARTH WILL WILLBE BE AFFECTED I SOLAR P F ROE CERTAIN TO BE FELT PELT ON THIS TEES GLOBE I Galveston San Francisco Balti Baltimore more Inore Messina Mont Pelee Paris and Chicago Comets Cometh have not been the cause of these t but tut ut every one o ot of them has been caused by disturbances of solar force for e which have affected the earth So far as any direct effect of ot the comet coming In contact with or thee h eart there is no dan ger But Bt B t indirectly its Ith effect in deflecting solar S lar l orco r to the earth and particularly at the time when the eat passes through the greatest con condensation condensation of solar force in the so called aIled tall taIl of ot the comet the comet has already and will again affect the earth What can we do Nothing except set st our house In order What would happen if a comet of great size and the irth rth were to ap approach approach approach each other so closely that the earth would be struck by the focal l point of these solar rays condensed through the head of the comet and brought to focus on the earths sur surface surface face tace can be readily seen by trying the experiment on a small scale with a burning glass or any kind of a lens focused on some burnable object These are just a few of the conclusions conclusions reached by Edwin Fairfax Naul Naulty ty owner of a private observatory in New Cew York and for twenty years ears a student of th causes and effects of comets and of terrestrial magnetism Mr Naulty has written a long paper on the subject of Baileys comet and in that connection he of offers offers offers fers what he considers an especially plausible theory regarding the causes of many of the greatest disasters of earthly history Solar force Mr Naul Naulty Naulty ty t considers the great moving cause of holding the earth on its orbit and of maintaining in a state of normal equilibrium the latent forces within the earth itself Trouble comes he says sa s when the solar rays or force happen to be deflected or reflected from the earth so f o 0 that this globe of ours tries to readjust Itself to the new conditions The writer calls the tail of comet a searchlight of ot the sky Mr paper which he has written under the title titie of Comet a Huge Huga Lens Its Tall Tail a Great Cone of Focused Sunlight is given herewith practically in full Disturbances Caused by b Comets Comets cause earthquakes and earth tremors volcanic eruptions electrical and magnetic storms au auroras auroras auroras and a d other meteorological dis disturbances disturbances disturbances and effect the normal con condition condition of the earth in many ways This is not a superstitious belief but a statement of scientific fact In May 1909 in a treatise on the true nature of comets transmitted to various scientific bodies and observatories observatories observatories tories in the United States and abroad I gave In n the real reasons for I these disturbing effects eff and it is pleas pleasant pleasant I ant to find that the results of twenty years ears of investigation are now being generally even if transposed to fit the particular points of view The sun radiates In all directions within the solar system a force that may be called solar force which be becomes becomes becomes comes manifest to human senses as electromagnetic force as as light as heat beat as centripetal and centrifugal force and in other forms Solar force contains all the divisions of electrification electrIfication cation and illumination such as ca en cathode cathode thode rays anode rays Roentgen rays canal rays ras rays and andall andall andall all the various rays into which visible and invisible solar force has been re resolved resolved resolved solved If U the earth had no atmosphere to act as a transformer of solar force into light by b the effect of ot its resistance and by the deflection of solar force by the atoms of oxygen nitrogen hydro hydrogen hydrogen hydrogen gen water argon neon carbon I nitric and hydrogen ammonia ozone and complex organic and in inorganic inorganic inorganic organic particles which are present in our oar air we would have no sunlight But the earth would still be immersed in the radiance of solar force even if this solar force were not visible as light Power of Solar Force The earth and all the planets of the solar system are sustained in their orbits and revolutions by the effect on their mass and volume of solar force Their movements axial and spa spacia cia dal are nicely adjusted to the amount of solar force which each planet re receives receives receives Comets are spheres of gaseous con constituency constituency constituency without vapor or solid par particles particles particles Just as the gaseous atmospheric ic shell surrounding the earth acts as asa asa asa a transformer or condenser of solar olar fiTce T 1 so 80 do the gaseous heads or com corn of comets condense reflect d fret deflect and transmit sunlight or sols so force Their tails are not of substance phosphoric phosphoric phone cj Ji dic ic or gaseous The tails taUs of comets cor are sunlight con condensed by th th or r bead head and space I No f orbital or axial motion of Jt the t earth bas as been traced to a z som pom historical times The tenuous constituency os 0 oi a et com corn compared COmpared pared to the solid soUd earth ean s by bya a dense atmosphere inhibits this But comets can affect the earth and the earths atmosphere in a different way How lIow Comets Affect the tho Earth By their Inherent ability to inter interrupt Interrupt Interrupt rupt reflect and deflect solar force comets can and do affect the earth To Tomake Tomake Tomake make this clear The earth receives from the sun only a small part of the solar force radiating from that primary mary marl To this amount all its elements ele are re adjusted Along comes the huge if diaphanous body of a comet they have ha e been miles mUes in diameter dIameter diameter eter speeding between the earth and sun and depending on its position h with regard to the earth this comet reflects or diverts to t the earth olar volar I force that otherwise would be radiated away from the earth If 11 instead of one ling comet we have two as was the case in Janu January January January ary 1910 the effects will be more complex One of the effects of the comet of May and June 1909 was a disturbance of ter terrestrial terrestrial terrestrial magnetic conditions and this affected ships compasses In June 1909 there was an extraordinary se series series Series ries of ot marine disasters due to the worldwide fog caused by the comet of that time and the coincident aber aberration aberration aberration ration of ships compasses Storms in Europe The unusual storms in northwest Europe In the first three months of 1910 culminating In France the snowstorms in Iceland and In the north Atlantic the floods and rain In Central America Ameri a the cold in Mexico and the storms in the south Pacific if plotted on a globe will be seen to ex extend e tend in a belt or zone running from southwest to northeast This belt was as crossed in January Januar 1910 by another belt running up through Africa cross crossing ing France the British Isles Iceland Greenland British Brish North America AmerIc Alaska the ocean to south of Australia Remembering that the earth erth rotates rottes on Its axis ais the of Haleys comet A 1910 and of the solar force deflected defected by them can ca be projected to the earth as astronomers astronomers mers would phrase it If I the earth earth stood still stil the effect would be confined to one region regon but its It revolution makes this region regon traverse the globe in a belt or zone The effect of deflected force is also evident in mine explosions and in earthquakes Earthquakes have hae oc occurred occurred occurred and others other which will wi follow soon are due to the effort of ot the mass massof massof massof of the earth to adjust its coherency to the application of additional solar force deflected defected by the comet Since Sinca Since solar force Is the whole of ot which all other rays are part par it is readily con conceivable conceivable conceivable that rays of solar force can and do penetrate the earth as a penetrate opaque bodies thereby causing the explosion of gases in mines and of explosive mixtures ge in buildings The Te explosions in the col In Kentucky K and Colorado were due to this cause The mysterious ex cx explosions explosions of dynamite and of chemical works work of late are also an effect of the same cause cuse Floods Foods In i Prance France FranceA A number of conditions abutted the primal cause of the te floods flo ds in France The region had been frozen ozen hard had when the regon storms came along the zone described The ground gound was wa not absorbent and the rains poured into the streams steams almost amos direct But the primal causes of the te floods In France were the te rains rn and these rains were weI due to the effect on the earths atmos atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere phere of solar force torce deflected by the comets comet Since for every area of low barometer and storm there is an op opposing opposing opposing posing area of high barometer and clear cle we should find such contrasting co areas That we do is set forth in an announcements announcement announcements from the weather bu bureau bureau bureau reau of that time In the limits of a popular explanation explanation tion ton It Is impossible to set forth in de detail detail tail tai the various arious factors entering Into the effect of disturbance or radiation of solar force by comets comet These fac factors factors factors tors embrace practically every ever phy physical physical physical condition and are apparent In Inmany inmany many may ways wa It I is not in the regular province of ot the astronomer to fore forecast forecast forecast cast comets but we shall see the greatest flood in the Mississippi val valley valley ley Icy since that of 1862 a great comet year and before Haleys comet has passed out into space again we are certain to be subjected to severe earth earthquakes earthquakes quakes and to great variations of weather veather in short periods such as those hose of the last fortnight in April AprI Since the whole earth Is affected the exact point of outbreak cannot yet be determined A violent upheaval may come anywhere along the Pacific volcanic basin or it I may find outlet In the Mediterranean region region The Mississippi flood food should come with the first rise and it may be followed by a a late inundation Earth tremors are also probable in the middle states state and violent storms will wIl harass ha the gulf and south Atlantic states Speed of or Comets Tall Tail T If lIf I Haleys comet as It I rounds the sun approaches In splendor its appear appearance apper appearance ance at other visits it I should have a tail tI The end of that tail tal always pointing away from the sun will wi be swung sung around at tremendous speed Many eyes will wi see it and ad many brains will then become wi con convinced convInced convinced vinced that matter cannot be trans translated translated lat d through space at the speed the tail tl will wI make As A an example take a beam from a revolving lighthouse Let that beam be visible Isible twenty miles mUes and sweep seep through a circle in twenty seconds In ten seconds the beam bem would sweep seep through half hal its It circle as a the beam bea is twenty miles mies long tho the outer end of ot the beam would sweep through 3 an arc of sixty sity miles mUes in ten seconds une comet or tue last cen century century tury tur had a a tan tall miles mie long This comet passed Pled halfway halway around the sun In two hours sweeping its It tail ti with it Figuring only from the suns half haf surface to get our arc ac o of the end endot of ot this ts tall ti traveled through tough space at at the rate rte of roughly of miles mies in two to hours No electric re 1 could force matter mater to travel at that speed seed Even direct light does doe not travel at that speed Only de deflected deflected light its ls direct speed multi multiplied mul I plied by well known laws pled wel kown could travel at that speed It I takes the earth erth ei J months to cover that distance It mu t not be thought that comets comet tails tais always travel at that sped sJ d da do do not Only when the comet comets swings s g around the sun At other times the th movement of the tails is equal to the movement of the head of a a ac c A conception of how the tails always point away from the sun may my be obtained by imagining them as a a globular celestial lenses transmitting g sunlight as celestial celestal searchlights Suppose one of those searchlights turned on the earth That Is what wha will wI happen on May 18 if i the compu are correct with wih Haleys comet So far as effect Is concerned there will wi be none Of tha tIUi I indirect effects due to reflected colas ola force we shall know more later laer and what we will learn lear with wih better beter facilities fai facilitIes ties tie to observe and more accurate ob oh observers observer servers server than have ever eer waited the ad advent advent advent vent of ot any previous comet comet will l ba that comets com ts do affect the earth by the deflection defection of solar force Let us not become confused over anode cathode canal cal uranium radium Roentgen infrared and ultraviolet rays rys Every Everyone Eel Everyone one of these is present In the solar force radiating from the sun sn Since Sinco the whole must contain all al its It parts part we shall be saved aved trouble and rela over oer the particular visible or Dr in invisible invisible visible rays if we w group them all al as ts solar force 4 |