| Show HOW THE WORLD WILL END our planet will not by accident but A natural death according to all probability notwithstanding nil tho circumstances which threaten it our planet will die not of an accident but a natural death that death will be the consequence of tho extinction of the sun in yeara or more perhaps since its condensation at a relatively moderate rate will give it on one hand years of existence whilo on the other liand the inevitable fall of meteors into tho sun may double this number even if you suppose the duration of the sun to be prolonged to years it is still incontestable that the radiation from abo sun cools it and that the temperature of all bodies tends to an equilibrium tho day will come when the sun will be extinct then tho earth and all tho other planets of our system will cease to bo the abode of life they will be erased from the great book and will revolve black cemeteries around an extinguished sun will these planets continue to exist even then yes probably in abo case of jupiter and perhaps saturn no beyond a doubt for the small bodies such the earth venus mars mercury and tho moon already the moon appears to have preceded us toward the final desert mars is much further advanced than the earth toward the same destiny younger than us will doubtless survive us these little worlds lose their elements of vitality much faster than the sun loses its heat from century to century from year to year from day to day from hour to hour the surface of the earth is transformed on the one hand the continents are crumbling away and becoming covered by the sea which insensibly and by very slow degrees tends to invade and submerge the entire globe on the other hand the amount of water on the surface of the globe is diminishing A careful and reasonable calculation shows that by the action of crosure alone all the land on our planet will be covered by water in years camilla Flam marion in astronomic |
