The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-13
MARS NOW
INHABITED.
Professor Lowell Says
CircumStantial Evil
dence Proves 1t.

expounded during the first seven lee
lures of his Lowell Institute course on
Mars as the Abode OF Life" Prof
Lowell. in his final lecture. said that
Mars is an inhabited planet. He said
that astronomical discovery is of two
kinds. First, there is the kind that
consists of the discovery of another
asteroid, for instance. on mathematical
considerations alone; and the second
is that that goes to the bottom Of the
affairs of a planet and makes discov-
cries on a planet already well known.
The discovery of a truth in the heav-
ems differs but little from the dis
covery of criminals on earth. 1t Is
simply a piece of detective work, en-
ploying similar methods. The solution
Of the truth OF discovery is based on
two things, circumstantial evidence
and motive. Motive is as much of
necessity in the determination Of truths
in cosmic as in human affairs. Prof.
Lowell attacked his problem from these
two points, using as his circumstan-
tial evidence the facts concerning the
planet that he had enunciated in the
other seven lectures.
MARS MUCH SMALLER THAN THE
EARTH.
Mars is of a much smaller mass than
is the earth, and, consequently, 1t
should differ from the earth in some
principal respects The surface should
be smoother, oceans should not be
present, and the air should be COM
paratively thin. The telescope shows
all these facts to be true concerning
Mars. Also, the planet should have
aged quicker than has the earth, and
this fact is shown by the wide expanse |
of deserts and the absence of water |
on the surface, for 1t is known that |
all planets. including the earth, slowly |
but surely lose their water.
Warmth and water are absolute |
necessities of life. On Mars the polar |
caps, which contain the only moisture |
annual melting by the sun the only |
moisture that the surface OF the globe |
ever receives. 1t never rains on Mars, |
and every winter the moisture is again |
deposited in the form of snow around
the poles.
NEVER RAINS ON MARS.
The temperature Of Mars was shown
by Prof Lowell in one of the earlier
lectures TO be ample for the existence
of life. 1t is a climate of extremes,
the winters being very cold and the
summers very hot The mean is so
degrees, the same as the mean temper
allure of the earth. Experiments on
the earth have shown that If an animal
is warm enough during the productive
season. 1t can stand any amount of cold
at any other season.
An animal on a planet so far dis
tant from the earth would only make
itself known TO persons on the earth
by the work that it had produced on
the surface of it's planet. On Mars
there are just such markings as intelf-
gence might have made. These mark
ings are the so-called canals. They are |
not optical illusions, for they have ex-l
listed in the same places for years and
have been photographed. There are
two spots on the planet. 20 miles in
diameter and so miles apart, that have |
a quantity of canals leading to them. |
Three OF the double canals embrace |
them; that is, just touch their outer |
edges Four other doubles send their |
arms each to a separate spot, and |
large number of single canals also run |
into the spots.
The lines are not rivers. for rivers |
are never so straight and so uniformly |
wide. They are not cracks. for again |
cracks are not straight and usually |
is that meteors have raised welts |
across the surface; but this Is easily |
met by the fact that a welt would |
never change color so as to be per-
kectly visible at one time ana nearly Il
Invisible at another.
The systematized arrangement of the
canals to form a network over the sur
face is also inexplicable. The way that
n large number will come together at |
enc point from great distances over
the planet all coming as straight as it
is possible for them to do. is not natu-
raj. All these things are not natural
objects, but are the work of an intelli-
gence comparable to the human intelli-
gence of the earth.
CANALS ALMOST INVISIBLE.
In winter the canals become almost
Invisible, but at the beginning of sum-
mer. when the ice cap around the pole
begins to melt, those canals nearest the
pole will become darker, then those
little further along will darken, and
he process will be passed along the