Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-10-04

50 tar tli,rr j. nothing in What
w. have learned about Venus which
>doc> not agree we'll with the iIc.. that
the pl"lct j. Il world like our earth
NhcIc people like ourselves NIGH;
live very comfortably. For it would not
matter much To u, probably, if the Year
were shortened by four or five months and
thc ,ay by htll an hour >Uppo>iny al
ways thI tIc,S and vegetables were So
made tIlt they could thrive under the
change In tact. if any one leaves the
temperate regions To visit the tropics, he
has lo-HnjlrrTp H-Ircttrr ciItnrr. For here
III England (WhrIr | am writing). and
throughout the | nitcd States. the season,
chtngctrUm the heat t.. summer to the cold
| OF winter, and back again To- the heat of
sunllncr,In twelve months but ut the coul-
tor, the greatest heat occur, in >prin~ and
autumn or Il. mt rivals Of only >iN months
50 iar i, HE length OF the Year j. concern
t'l. an American OF an Engli~hluan could
very We'll Lear the change to The temperate
zone "t venus, where he interval between
TIE Successive seasons Of create t heat
amounts 10 seven :tnI a half months
Hut wien W" Con>l'ltr some other points.
we 80" that Venus, beautiful though She
loukS. would Lot hc 4 comfortable home
Tor Us. In the frs, place, we know tl.t if
we draw nearer to fire we get more heat
from It. Now Venus is much nearer to
the sun-thc great fire of the soar system
-tlt;in our earth is. She Receives. then.
mitch more heat from him In fact. it is
easily calculated that if our earth were. set
travelling on tile path of Venus, we should
receive almost exactly twice rs mach heat
from the sun rs we do at present This
would be unhcar;tbIr. except. perhaps, IN
the POLAR regions and even there the sum
mrr, with that tremendous sun above the
horlZ"n all through the twcntv-four hours
would be scarcely bc.uabr Besides, what
a contrast between the hot polar summer
and the cold polar winter. when for week,
together die san would not be seen 1T all.
Altogether, this earth would be :. ni>cra-
Die home for Us if her path were SO close
TO IN" san rs that of Venus
We see. then. that either tn re must be
some nccuila! tics about Venus which pr,-
vent The sun from heating people there rs
Il" would certainly heat Us if our home :
were there, OF else the creatures which |
1--we on Venus must be different nom our
selves and the other animal inhabitants of
our calth. Unfortunately we cannot make
telescopes large enough to show u, what
Is gong on upon tllat planet, and there is
no reason for hoping that such telescopes
an ever be made. What we know, how
yer, about the planets condition does no!
seem to show that creatures living there
Won be more comfortable than we should
1c II the ca!th were put where Venus is.
~ the contrary, s. far as we can Judge
We know that the seasons on our earth
ire caused by the fact that she terms on a
l;tntcd HAl>. If her axis were iipriuht.
here would b" no seasons; if il were more
lanlc,!, the contrast between sln mcr and
winter would be greater. Now Venus has
!cr HNI> much more Sllntcu than the
lth'>. 50 that her seasons must be very
marked indeed Thus the heat of her
nmmrr weather must be even more ter
HE than we thought Just now
Bat there is yet another point to be no. .
lccd- You know that on the upper slopes i
1 lofty mountains, there is snow all the ,
ear round. even III the toirid zone. That ,
; because the air is 50 rare up there that !
docs not act like the dcn>cr air lower |
OWL which Is Il sort of cl,thjnT for he +
lrih, keeping the heat from escaping.
'oW II the air of Venus we've very rare, y
omcthlng OF the same sort N Git happen f.
II that planet. Just as people WHO live in t
'rrld zones seek the high mountain slopes h