Show shooting into space the question of whether it would ver ever be possible to shoot a projectile into space that ili if to soy say entirely ort oft the earth lius ling long been the tha subject of discus discussion slon in it detailed paper on if the german long ranged gun g un which bombarded parts last spring major J maitland adellson writing in tho the journal of bf tile the cloyal artillery says tho the requisite velocity of such mien a run Is in not so 0 o very much mael higher thou what has already been achieved viz a muzzle velocity of a mile per secondi se when we are arc able to increase this to ti five miles per second the projectile if llred at a suitable angle hill travel around the earth as a grazing completing its orbit between 17 and dinies daily with a velocity of abouel seven oven miles a second it will off ot into space never to return |