The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-12

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| airy, 1910, the effects will be more
complex. One of the effects of the
! PROFESSIONALLY comet of May and
! June. 1909, was disturbance of ter
| reStrial magnetic conditions and this
| affected ships compasses. In June,
1909, there was an extraordinary Sc
ries of marine disasters, due to the
worldwide fog caused by the comet
of that time, and the coincident aber-
ration of ships compasses.
Storms in Europe.
''The unusual storms in northwest
Europe in the first three months of
1910, eliminating in France; the
! Snowstorms in Iceland and in the
north Atlantic; the floods and rain in
Central America; the cold in Mexico
and the storms in the south Pacific if
plotted on globe will be seen to exr-
/ tend in a belt, or zone, running from
| southwest to northeast. This belt was
! crossed liz January, 1910, by another
belt running up through Africa. cross
| ing France, the British Isles Iceland.
Greenland, British North America,
Alaska, the Pacilc ocean to south of
Australia Remembering that the
| earth rotates on its axis, the pos don
of Halley's comet A, 1910, and of the
solar force DETECTED by them can be
! projected to the earth, as astrono-
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stood still the effect would be confined
to one region, but its revolution makes
| this region traverse the globe in belt,
] or zone
The effect of DETECTED force is also
evident in mine explosions and in
| earthquakes. Earthquakes have oc-
CURED, and others which will follow
soon are due to the effort of the mass
of the earth to adjust its coherency to
L of I'D
force DETECTED by the comet Since
solar force is the whole of which all
other rays are part, it is readily con-
ceiVable that rays OF solar force can
and do penetrate the earth, as X-rays
penetrate opaque bodies, thereby
causing the explosion of gases in
mines and of explosive mixtures in
buildings The explosions in the col
leries in Kentucky and Colorado were
due to this cause. The mysterious ex-
| plosiOns of dynamite and of chemical
works of late are also an effect of the
same cause.
Floods in France
"A number of conditions abetted
the primal cause of the floods in
France. The region had been frozen
hard when the storms came along the
zone described The ground was not
absorbent and the rains poured into
the streams almost direct. But the
primal causes of the floods in France
were the rains, and these rains were
due to the effect on the earth's atmos-
phere Of solar force DETECTED by the
comets Since for every area of low
barometer and storm there is an op-
posing area of high barometer and
clear, We should find such contrasting
areas. That We do is set forth in an
nOuncements from the weather bu-
reau of that time.
In the limits of a popular explana-
ton it is impossible to set forth in de-
tail the various factors entering into
the effect of disturbance or radiation
Of solar force by comets. These fac
tors embrace practically every ply
steal condition and are apparent in
many ways. 1t is not in the regular
province of the astronomer to fore
| cast comets, but we shall see the
greatest food in the Mississippi val
ley since that of 1862, a great comet
year, and before Halley's comet has
passed out into space again, we are
certain to be subjected to severe earth
quakes, and to great variations of
weather in short periods, such as
those of the last fortnight in April.
Since the whole earth is affected.
the exact point Of outbreak cannot vet
be determined A violent upheaval
may come anywhere along the Pacific
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in the Mediterranean region. The
Mississippi flood should come with the
first rise, and it may be followed by a,
/ late inundation. Earth tremors are
also probable in the middle states, and
violent storms will harass the gulf,
and south Atlantic states.
Speed of Comets Tail.
eff Halley's comet as it rounds the
sun approaches in splendor its appear
ance at other visits, it should have a
lengthy tail The end of that tail
always pointing away from the sun,
will be swung around at tremendous
speed Many eyes will see it and
many brains will then become con-
WINGED that matter cannot be trans
lated through space at the speed the
tall will make. As an example. take
beam from a revolving lighthouse
Let that beam be visible twenty miles
and sweep through a circle in twenty
seconds In ten seconds the beam
would sweep through half its circle;
as the beam is twenty miles long, the
outer end Of the beam would sweep
through an arc Of sixty miles in ten
seconds. One comet of the last CEN
fury had a tail 90,000,0O0 miles long.
This comet passed halfway around
the sun in two hours. sweeping its tail
with it. Figuring only from the suns
half surface to get our arc OF the end
OF this tail travelled through space at
the rate of, roughly, 2SO,OOO,GGO of
miles in two hours. No electric re-
pulsi6n' could force matter to travel
at that speed. Even direct light does
not travel at that speed. Only de-
Elected light, its direct speed multi
piled by well known laws, could travel
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