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On Sunday, September 27, 1953, the Los Angeles Examiner ran an article called: _Mars . . . Target For
Tomorrow_. It said, in part: "Man is almost ready to leave his home of a million years . . . the Earth . . . and
venture restlessly to other worlds . . . into space, to the Moon . . . and then to Mars."
First of all, the Earth hasn't been "home" to man for a short million years--millions would be more like it.
More guessing without a shred of evidence to back it up. Yes, man "ventures restlessly" to conquer all space,
to spread his disease, his war, his greed, to other worlds. Dr. von Braun, creator of the German V-2, and now
director of the United States Army's guided missiles development project, says: "Man _wasn't_ built to leave
the Earth!" He is quite right; man wasn't built to leave the Earth in space ships that will "blast off" for this or
that celestial body. Everything man creates on Earth is created through force. He hammers, he tears, he rivets,
he pounds; now he's going to "blast off" to other worlds. He thinks by the use of brute force he's going to be
Lord of Creation. When he learns to use natural forces and not fight them he will have found the key to space
travel, indeed, a "key" to many things. The rock on which many scientists have wrecked their ships is
materialism. In their studies they have eliminated forces and their workings, saying: "A force is the result of
atomic movements." This is true; all forces are--except the Force which first starts atomic movement.
In 1950, a book was published called: The Conquest Of Space, by Chesley Bonestell and Willy Ley. Ley also
wrote, Bombs and Bombing, and Shells and Shooting. Therefore, he should be an expert on "Conquest Of
Space".
Ley says: "The high temperature of the moon-day increases the velocity of the hydrogen molecule to above
the moon's escape velocity."
If this hydrogen escapes into space, where does it go? Since the escape velocity from the moon is the same for
a space ship or for hydrogen, if a ship which reaches the "dividing line" or neutral point between the Earth and
the Moon falls Moonward after crossing that line, and the Moon's gravitational force takes over, the same
would apply to the hydrogen atoms escaping from the Moon, and they would be drawn to the Earth. Or, do
they fall back and orbit as a band around the moon?
Ley says the modern astronomer, or rather his helper from the field of physics, also knows why the Moon is
airless, in fact he can prove that it was "always" without air. The realization that the Moon must have lost its
atmosphere quickly (although it presumably had a gaseous envelop for some time during the early days of its
career) led to Simon Newcomb's famous statement that the Moon is a world without weather on which
nothing ever happens. Newcomb may not have meant it literally, and it is not literally true. There is a strange
kind of "weather" on the Moon, caused by the same factors which removed the weather we know, the weather
caused by air and moisture.
How could the Moon have "always" been with-out air if it at one time during its career had air and moisture?
The Guessers are so contradictory.
Ley says the temperature range on the Moon, from lunar midday to lunar midnight, amounts to almost
four-hundred degrees Fahrenheit. Rocks exposed to such temperature changes at regular two-week intervals
will crack. Their crystalline structure will give way under repeated expansion and contraction and the surface
will flake off. Incidentally, the brightness of the Moon and a few other factors, support the assumption that the
Sun's light is reflected by pulverized basalt or similar rocks.
If their assumption is correct, that the Sun's light is reflected from the Moon, by basalt or similar crystalline
rocks, then the natural disintegration of those rocks will release tremendous quantities of hydrogen and
oxygen. This also proves that the Moon has an atmosphere! Any mineralogist will confirm the fact that all
crystalline structure contains hydrogen and, or oxygen.
Ley says sunrise over the large crater of Plato is just like sunrise over any other crater. But as the dividing line