The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03
PEOPLE IN OTHER WORLDS.
A LONG TIME BEFORE EARTHLINGs
WILL GET ON CALLING TERMS.

Wonderful Things Revealed by
Peep Through the Great Lick Tel
escOpe-The Moon Dead Issue.
More Possibilities of Life on Mars
Than on the Other PIanets-Cor-
bctt and FitzsimmOns Would stand
No Show With a Martian's Muscle.
Jupiter Hot World to Live in, But
VIII Cool on in Time.
From time to time one reads Of some
wonderful scheme for communicating
with the inhabitants of the planet Mars
or of the moon, and the minds of the
people, now long accustomed to believe
almost anything in the domain of scien-
tific discovery, stand ready to accept the
announcement of it's practical demonstra-
ton.
OF the distances, dimensions and ply
steal conditions of our sister planets the
great masses of the people have but
little definite knowledge. and for this
reason it may be well to consider the
real facts concerning the Availability of
these interesting bodies. From analogy
it does indeed seem very reasonable that
other members of the solar system besides
our own earth should be peopled with
intelligent beings, and inasmuch as some
Of the planets are much larger and older
than the earth it also seems reasonable
TO suppose that animal life upon them
may be far more advanced in its physl-
cal and intellectual development than
mat upon our planet.
1t is pleasant enough to speculate upon
the immense possibilities of life in the
hHIlte fields of space, but what real
49Cls 90 the keen-sighted observers at
me eye-piece of the worlds greatest tee
sSopes tell us? 1t may be stated here
ltdJ the revelations of large telescopes,
WINE truly great to the trained and
IHouShtIul observer, are very much over
eSlLnated by the inexperienced. Indeed,
me Hrst view through large telescope
IS usually very disappointing. The writer
was very faVorably reminded of this well
hnoWn fact last summer upon the occa-
California
me great telescope, the largest in the
world, was turned upon the planet Sat
urn under the most favorable conditions,
ana yet many who had never looked
through large telescope before did not
really really appreciate the performance of the
wonderful instrument.
The highest power that can be used
upon the moon and planets to advantage
Is from 1000 to 1900, for it must be re-
lielaDered that as we magnify an object
as light is correspondingly diminished,
1Htu point is reached when no further
gam IS made by increasing the power.
uAder about the same conditions as If
~ were viewed with the naked eye at a
Instance OF about 200 miles.
Inis is the same as sayins that OBJ
1ects about 200 feet square can be recog-
nlzed by US. But the moon is by far our
nearest neighbor, and upon its rugged
surface not the slightest evi3cnee of life
ii.as ever been discovered. Indeed, we
know indirectly that animal and vegeta-
PIE life upon the moon is impossible.
Lie, as we know it, cannot exist with
out air. and it is susceptible or positive
proof that the moon has no atmosphere.
Lhen it follows as a matter Of course
mat it has neither animal or vegetable
NE, water or fire.
IL is possible, indeed quite probable,
mat the moon once possessed an atmos-
phere, and upon its surface there may
nave at one time existed some form of ami
mai and vegetable life, but as the moon
c4oled off its atmosphere and water were
aosorbed into its porous mass. The dark
aPols upon the moon are thought to be
4nandoned beds of its former seas, whose
atker color reflects less of the sunlight
nan the brighter mountain ranges around
ZEN; The moon is, therefore, a dead
,"oLld, a fossil planet, and in fact a fit
biV'otype Of our own earth, for We are