Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-11-16
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The world !. slowing down In it,
daily rotation and the days are get
ting longer. Magnetic storms are
putting a magnetic brake on the
earth. and n they continue b. con-
strict this brake. Mt the rate meas
urvd for tho past ten years. IN Just
a.320 years this good Old earth will
nn longer be- turning like one OF
Nathewson's curved balls hut viii
settle down, with one side In per-
pctual SUNSHINE. hlasted by withor.
Ing heat. and the other side In end
less darkness ana cold. correspond.
ing 10 the extreme fripidit, of inter-
stellar space
observe Il n not claimed that the
earth POSITIVELY VIII come to stand
siill IN this year Ga2l 4. D.. but
simply that Il h being subjected 10
IL brake that may stop n by that
time. Probably more scientists would
agree that magnetic storms viii be
less Violent IN the future. and that
other forces viii intervene. and that
the stopping Of the cEr,h VIII be
postponed y great many years be-
yvnd the date mentioned.
nut all scientists will acquiescc in
| the statement that tho earth IL slow
/ INK down and sooner or later win
come t0 n STOP
when the cnrtn stops turning the
side toward The sun viii become
overheated. and water VIII dry M
and blissering deserts viii cover the
surface. Near the edge of tho sun
NJ side there Win ne u temperate
zone where the sun viii always be
one hour high or Whereabouts. re-
naming at the same height above
7 the horizon year In ana year out.
Every hour viii be like g o'clock In
the morning 81 q summer DAY To
this delightful region the worlds
population Win flock
! a little removed from the hot area
win he the twilight zone. also quite
habltable. with the sun unending at
the horizon
Though lie IN the torrid or hot
zone win he insupportahic. as rule
yet ON the outer edges. where the
sun II but two or three hours high,
people may i've IN temperature ~
100 % ifo degrees by means OF yari-
GUS cooling consrivances
ON the dark. cold side Of the
earth all the water will be- frozen
/ solid--evcn mercury viii freeze IN
that awful chill II will he impossl-
bic for human beings TO penetrate
more than three or four hundred
miles into the dark and frietd zone.
which will be far more inaccessible
than are now enc polar wastes.
During the period when the oar,h's
days are lengihening perccptibiy
great social changes must come about
due "a the difference IN hours. when
.hs days get % be firty hours tong
- viii surel, be neceAAry 60 arrange
for period 81 rest and slrep In the
middle % the int Think Of a long
day IN whirh q get IiRht oniy ~ ~
O'Clock and Ne. arise ami 10 90 work
lat ~. az rs o'elock We are allowed
"a recess aud lunch. AZ 90 o'clock
we stop and dine and take a nap. AZ
80 We go 10 work again. recess at a..
with more lunch. AZ 80 We quit
and this II the rush hour for street
cars AZ 80 o'clock We are home for
our night dinner; "a 80 We 90 "a
the theater AZ SO o'clock the peo-
pie heEin TO 80 90 he'd and by IS or
! 10 O'Clock the last night prpwler
should he tucked ln his little couch.
1 IS the days lengthcn until they
exceed weeks duration all sorts OF
complications VIII ehsuc and tac
days weeks and months viii become
hopelessly mixed. Scientists agree
that the lunar month viii lcnathen
as the day lengthens. though the day
will Increase more rapidly. Accord
ing Ia Prof Ernes, W Brown ~
Haverford college. who has given
special attention 10 this subject, there
will come time when the month
and the day Win both be ~ the same
duration Of about ! see hours. or ~
OF our present days.
A. ,hr eafths days set longer and
longer the time wiii come when a
day IL year long. Then There VII
be No more DAYS and nights. nc
weeks and months The earth al
ways will have one side % the sun
and the moon VIII have one side "a
the earth and the tNo will tnrn
around tnc sun once a year AZ " fixed
on rigid bar. There viii be ne
more seasons 81 the earth-no spring
summer autumn or winter Th'
weather Of the several seasons car
be experienced onlS by travelling g
: and gr0 between the hot and colo
zones. for one-haif win be perpciual'
" hot. dr, ana parched. the oihel
viii be like the polar regions durini
the long arctic nlnht
. II IL clear that property values "
more than haif the planet VIII b'
wiped out. cities and farms through
out the dark half 81 the globe VII
be- buried under perpetual glaciers
Corresponding values vii rise enof
niously on the inhabited strip tina
lies Just on the cool edge OF the no
hemisphere No one knows. no on'
can calculate. al This time, what par
of the earth VIII be included In I'm
haoitable strip % belt any more thai
they can predict which half or TN
world viii be hot and which cold
Az that science can forecast IL TIA
men VIII migrate Ia that RIM
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