Show Near APPROACH to EARTH of Some Som REA HEAVENLY VENLY BODY BODY 1 BEDS 1 I 1 t. t z r 7 1 WATERS PULLED OUT BY GRAVITATION GRAVITATION i. i I t J i f 1 i S 1 T X u. u hI I OCEAN BEDS F Should Another Heavenly Body Approach Within a Short Distance of the Earth the Water on Both Bodies Would Be Drawn Out as Shown According to Scientists We are not concerned here what this body was It might have been our own moon or it might have been any of the other planets or even an extraordinary large body of a bulk as large as the earth or even as small or smaller than the moon passing sufficiently close to the earth say earth say two thousand miles The mutual gravitational influences would then raise tremendous tremendous tremendous dous tidal waves not only upon the earth but upon the other heavenly body as well providing there was water on it Now if Noah had been as he presumably was a Vise wise man he no doubt would have been able to fores foresee e what was vas coming just as any astronomer astronomer mer can foretell the return of a comet years in advance The flood is commonly supposed to have occurred in the year 2348 B B. B C. C If we credit a man with ingenuity enough to build the Ark in other words a vessel 1100 feet long and 50 GO feet Thought to Have CAUSED the DELUGE j deep as mentioned in the Bible a a vessel comparing comparing com corn paring paring very favorably with modern a a. a ocean passenger passenger pas pas- Benger steamer that man must have had a rather remarkable intelligence He probably was inclined inclined in n- n elined astronomically and he probably could foretell foretell foretell fore fore- tell the time when the encounter of the two bodies bodies bodies bod bod- ies viz the earth and the tho strange wanderer would occur This Thi of course would give him time enough to build his ark and therefore es escape escape escape es- es cape the ensuing cataclysm What would happen if the earth and the other celestial body would be at their nearest approach say miles apart Mr Gernsback explains in inthis inthis inthis this manner It should be remembered that such an encounter encounter encounter en en- counter as this thi is not of long duration The earth moves moves very rapidly in its orbit namely at atthe atthe atthe the rate of miles per day The other body would move at an approximately similar speed The havoc caused by the mutual gravitational gravitational gravitational attraction would be colossal as well as swift As the two bodies approach the ocean waters of the earth being the most plastic substance of the almost rigid earth would be drawn sky high all depending upon the distance which separated the two heavenly bodies That the ocean waters would be lifted up in gigantic tidal waves of anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- where from ten to twenty-five twenty miles high is only a very reasonable surmise The lifting up p of these waters would of course c course urse be swift and would not necessarily cause immediate havoc then but the minute the two bodies separate the waters naturally would recede with a rush and would inundate the continents considerably over the highest mountain tops Consider that the waters of the earth cover five-eighths five of the entire surface If Jf therefore this theory is correct the receding waters would rush over almost every continent of the entire globe Nor will this titanic disturbance be momentary mo mo- The gigantic waves creat created d would not come to rest immediately and the momentum would probably be sufficient to cause the waters r tf to race around the earth for foi many days to come v ft I It might even take months for some continents to t I become depleted of the waters undoubtedly new 7 oceans would wOld be creat created and old ones turned permanently permanently permanently per per- into land i i ft How long such a disturbance might might last until v the oceans finally came to rest again i is impossible 1 t to know now but it cannot be doubted that the I t f time element would be rather long It is well f known that a cloudburst sometimes deluges a section section section sec sec- i tion of the country for forr some days before the y waters finally have entirely dispersed through 11 filtration into the ground or by being carried l laway 7 away by rivers Such a local inundation probably probably T ably never exceeds an average of ten to fifteen en feet deep If then it takes days for for t the e. e waters t 1 to recede from such a purely microscopic local affair how l long ng would it take the waters finally tf j to disappear if an ocean wave anywhere from ten to twenty-five twenty miles in depth swept over the lands fa ti Great tidal waves of a transient nature according according ac ac- V v cording to Isabel M. M Lewis of the United States States' li Naval Observatory produced by the gravitational r attraction of two massive bodies passing close to 1 each other with high velocities and lasting A climatic changes produced by the change in the 1 earths earth's orbit and in the inclination of its axis s r i. i y t would result from the visit of this stranger from jJ space f I ft In historical times no great changes have taken place in the earths earth's climate but as we Y 1 w 4 delve backward into the earths earth's history through F. F great geological eras that stretch into the dun dim 0 and distant past we find quite a different sta state of r affairs At periods in the earths earth's history great r climatic changes changes' were brought about glacial glacia or ry ice ages when polar caps extended far in into the f temp temperate rate zon zones were foll followed wed by by periods when luxuriant tr tropical vegetation flourished as far tar I ry J f north as Greenland Vj M 1 What was was the cause of these tremendous vari variations r in climatic conditions over the earths earth's surface surface surface sur sur- face during diff different rent epo epochs hs No completely i satisfactory answer has yet been given J r V t y |