Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-03-24
MESSAGE FROM VENUS
U. s. ASTRONOMER CLAIMS TO
HAVE ACCOMPLISHED FEAT.
Head Of Naval Observatory at Marc
Island Declares the Star Is In
hablted by Intelligent
Beings.

San Francisco, Cal.-Prof. Thomas
Jefferson See, the famous astronomer
who is now in charge of the United
States naval observatory at Mare
island, has established communication
with the planet Venus, according to-
information obtained here. Further,
that he has received a message from
Venus.
1t is claimed by Professor See that
not only is Venus inhabited but that
the inhabitants are of high order Of
intelligence, capable of reasoning and
of receiving and responding to COM
munications from the earth and other
astral bodies.
Just what the nature of the message
Professor See received from Venus he
declines at this time to make known.
He is reserving that detail for the
official report he is preparing to make
OF his remarkable discovery.
That Professor See is not vision
airy and that his statements can be
accepted with credence may be attest
ed by his career. He is a graduate
of the University of Missouri, class Of
'ss. After his graduation he metricu-
lated at the University of Berlin.
where he received a doctor degree.
He was for three years in charge Of
the Yerkes observatory at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
While in Germany Professor See
startled astronomers by his discovery
OF the so-called double stars" After
leaving Germany Professor See en-
tered the service of the United States,
becoming attached to the naval OBJ
servatory service. He now holds the
highest rank in that service, bearing
the title of captain.
Professor See says that he now
feels quite certain that he has estab-
lished his remarkable theory showing
the evolution of the stellar system,
which. If true, as Professor See be-
lleves, knocks into a cooked hat near
ly all of the reasoning on cosmical
evolution that has been accepted since
the time of LaPlace. Professor See
claims this theory has been vitiated
by a false premise to the effect that
the planet had been detached from
the sun by acceleration of rotation,
when the matter Of this globe was
originally expanded into a nebula fill
ing their orbits, and rotating under
conditions Of hydrostatic pressure and
that the satellites have been detached
from the planets in the same way.
All this reasoning Professor See
claims, on the shedding of planets and
satellites under the supposed influence
of the accelerated rotation of the rela-
lively large central bodies which gov
ern their motion, is now invalidated.
He says 1t Is also demonstrated in
more ways than one, but especially by
means OF the important criterion pro-
osed by Rabinet, in 1851, and here
tofore very generally overlooked, that
the planet and satellites could never
have been detached by rotation with
the existing momenta OF momentum.
and must therefore have been captur-
ed and built up in resisting medium
revolving as whirling vortex and es-
sentially devoid of hydrostatic pres
sure.
In this way, and in this way only,
can these small bodies have been
formed. and their orbits reduced in
size and transformed into such singu-
lar circularity, according to Professor
See.