The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-02-23
MESSAGE FROM VENUS
d. S. ASTRONOMER CLAIMS. TO
HAVE ACCOMPLISHED FEAT.
head of Naval Observatory at Mare
Island Declares the Star Is In
habited by Intelligent
Beings.

San Francisco, Cai.-Prof. Thomas
Jefferson See, the famous astronomer
who is now in charge of the Unlteo
States naval observatory at Mare.
island, has established communication
with the planet Venus, according 10
information obtained here. turtner'
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 Oh
intelligence, capable of reasoning ana
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
49, After his graduation he matricu-
lated at the University of Berlin,
where he received doctor degree.
He was for three years in charge of
the Verkes 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-
| lieves, 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 Initiated
w q AiioC plGulISS " the SACCL LID l
the planet had been detached from
the sun by acceleration of rotation,
when the matter of this globe was
originally expanded into 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 thus 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 lis also demonstrated in
more ways than one, but especially by
means of ffTe important criterion lpro
csed by Rabinet, in 1861, 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 ccaptur
ed and built up in a resisting medium
| revolving as whirling vortex and es
sentially devoid of hydr0static 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 ssingu
lar cir'cilanity, according to Professor
See.