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Show No Fun to Be the Mm in the Moon THAT distinguished astronomer, astrono-mer, the Abbe Morenx, di-i di-i rector of the Observatory of Bou.rges, France, has published an Intensely Interesting book called, "A Day on the Moon." In this he describes de-scribes in the light of the latest astronomical as-tronomical research just what a man would see on the moon. He states that if there should ever .be a man on the moon he would have a very hard life. Tf you be an airman flying, say, 62,A miles an hour, you could cover the 238,833 miles in about 160 days of non-stop flight. "On the day when men have at their disposal an explosive material powerful enough to give to a shell an" initial, velocity of 12 kilometres (74 miles) per second, sec-ond, the shell shot Into the air would never come back to earth. The so-called so-called civilized nations could then find in the exercise of 'shooting the moon, a strong counter-attraction to the folly of mutually bombarding each other." As to man's progress toward his planet's suburban neighbor, there nre many obstacles. "At about six miles above the surface of the earth respiration becomes painful; at about twelve miles the air Is so rare-fled rare-fled that no animal 'worthy of the name,' could live there," even for the briefest moment-Even moment-Even suppose the journey were possible, what would be the reward? Things strange, certainly; but insupportable, insup-portable, There is no dawn to herald sunrise on the moon, but there is the zodiacal light, ten times more brilliant bril-liant than with us- "For a few minutes min-utes the chromosphere Is in sight. . . . Then all of a sudden hluo rays of light, so strong that the eye cannot endure them, dart from ihe distant . horlzou. . . . Isles of brightness seem to rise up around us as the summits catch the sunlight. sun-light. The day has come" and with it, what? Huge "craters" of volcanoes, volca-noes, ramparts of the inner substances sub-stances of the moon, with the fiery mountains proper encircled by them absence of air, or any gas that can be breathed; no water; frightful precipices; steep declivities; awful desolation: "not a patch of moss, not a heath-grown ledge to soften the rooky ridges and sharp-cut edges of these abrupt surfaces; not even the lowest form of plant-life, not a lichen to attenuate the wild aspect of the landscape and give it even the slightest slight-est appearance of life." When it is noonday on the moon thnt Js, when the suu has completed half its course across the skv the ground will be heated to such a degree de-gree tha it .would Immediately roa3t any organic substance placed upon its surface. The temperature would he above 212 degrees, and during the long lunar night of about two weeks a gas thermometer would indicate a cold of some 300 degrees below zero' Advantages to the human? You would of a surety seem a strong man according to your famlliur standards. "Take, for instance, a rock which vou would judge to weigh exactly one hundred pounds here on the earth. Lift it in your arms on the moon, and you would feel as if you were holding up barely twenty pounds." Think, too, what a "lifter" you would be! "Beforo jumping over an obstacle, obsta-cle, or leaping across a mass of sloping debris or an open crevasse you .will do well to be careful, and to remind yourself that an effort which would enable you 'In your own country to make a jump of six feet would carry you to a distance of thirty-six feet on the surface of the moon," |