Show THE MOON we are on quite neighborly terms with our satellite the moon as compared with guy any other planet we occupy adjoining lots lote so 80 to speak gnu and yet all that we have been permitted permit teu to find and out bout blui tier is very little Ie despite spite the powerful telescopes which nave have been and systematically trained epou lunac luna she shows a smiling face more or less leas scarred with eminences and caverns and concealing a good deal of it behind an opaque mask the greater part of the time and that is about as far usher as her condescension in our behalf has gone to date in discussing this subject a recent number bumber of the st louis asks thatis that it lunar conditions are la to human existence and it is nut certain that they are not and you could be transported to the top of pico or some other tall peak or rook on the surface of our silver slater world how bow do you suppose things would look from beoh vantage k round you would probably first turn your eyes in the direction of our earth the wonlu you hau had just quitted but to you it would be a stranger str aBger in place or of the somber omber globe you would naturally expect to behold your eyes would be greeted with a mot most wonderful ful sight eight the earth says saya the republic would appear to you to be 64 times larger than the sun appears to the residents of this mundane sphere this because the earth has eight times the diameter of the moon therefore she ahe must necessarily show tile the moon ites 64 times as much surface as the moon shows us this Is information that does not inform because it is not correct the earth Is in round numbers miles in ut altimeter while the moon Is 2163 2158 miles one being about 8 11 or a little more than one fourth of the other 1 so 0 o that instead of the earths earth diax diameter peter being eight times as great as that of its if hl 4 satellite it Is ie a little less legs than four times t as great this thia brings down the area that the moo must see when they look this way immensely from sixty four times as great as ae the moon as ae stated by our to about sixteen times as great but even at this would it not be a grand and glowing spectacle especially when we consider that our atmosphere is blue and we general effect would be that of a vast cerulean globe tinted all about with gleaming gold it is a delightful subject |