The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-01-11
BRAKE the EARTH
Magnetic Storms Are Robbino
Our Planet Of Motion.
NAY STAND STILL SOME DAY

NAY STAND STILL SOME DAY
DIssn One Side o. the World VIII % Q
Desert Furnace. the Other . Black.
ny Waste, and Mankind viii Find
OoDeM IN crsmpsd Quarters.
Ne world 10 slowing down in its
1aly rotation. and the days are get
Ting longer. according to Professor
louis A. Bauer of the Carnegie insti
tuta. Washington Magnetic storms
aro putting magnetic brake on the
earth, and If they continue to construct
dis brake, at the rate measured for
the past ten years. in just 1890 years
ibis good old earth will no longer be
turning on its axis. but will settle
down with one side in perpetual sun
shine. blasted by whitening heat. and
de other side In endless darkness and
cold. corresponding to the extreme fri
pdity Of interstellar space.
Observe 1t is not claimed that the
earth positively will come to q stand
still in this year 5231 A. D.. but sim
ply that 1t is being subjected to =
brake that may stop it by that time.
Probably most scientists would argue
Nat magnetic storms will be less vio-
Int In future. that other forces will
Intervene and that the stopping Of the
earth will be postponed a great many
Iears beyond the date named.
But all scientists will acquiesce in
- statement that the earth is SLOW
~ down and sooner or later will come
y q stop.
0de toward the sun will become over
heated, and water will dry up. and
Clustering deserts will cover the sur
eace. Near the edge of the sunlit side
there win be q temperate zone. where
the sun will always be one hour high
= thereabouts, remaining at the same
height above the horizon year in and
par out. Every hour will be like 6
0clock IN the morning Of sumner
a.. To this delightful region the
worlds population win dock.
A little removed from the hot area
WI be the twilight zone. also quite
Aabitable, with the sun unending at
the horizon.
Though life In the torrid or hot
0one will be insupportable. as a rule
yet on the outer edges. where the sun
. but two or three hours high, people
may live in temperature Of 100 to
30 degrees by means Of various COOL
6G contrivances .... ~
On the dark. cold side Of the earth
oil the water will be frozen solid.
Even mercury will freeze in that aw
ful chill It will be impossible for
human beings to penetrate more than
three or four hundred miles into the
dark and frigid zone, which will be
far more inaccessible than are now
the polar wastes.
The fact that all the water on the
cold side of the earth will be frozen
and all the water on the hot side dried
ID and evaporated will tend to cause
q great disturbance of the continents
and oceans of the globe. There must
b some sort of Encouragement. and
4 would seem that the oceans would
tend to seek the habitable temperate
none, which would then be the equa-
tors equivalent Since the earth's
surface contains very much more wa
Der than land it is extremely probable
that the temperate zone will not con-
tain nearly enough land to satisfy the
stipulation and that there will be con-
einuous struggles for possession OF
valuable SOIL 1t is even conceivable
that a large portion of the people
may be driven to seek permanent
residences in sailing vessels or steam
craft, subsisting by fishing.
During the period when the earth's
days are lengthening perceptibly great
social changes must come about, due
70 the difference in hours. When the
days get to be forty hours long 1t will
surely be necessary to arrange for .
Doriod Of rest and sleep in the middle
e the day.
As the days lengthen until they ex-
eeed weeks duration all sorts OF com
plications will ensue, and the days.
weeks and months will become hope
lessly mixed Scientists agree that the
lunar month will lengthen as the day
jengthens. though the day will increase
the more rapidly. According to Pro
lessor Ernest W. Brown of Haverford
college, who has given special atten-
don to this subject. there will come
time when the month and the day VIII
both be Of the same duration.
Az the earth's day gets longer and
longer the time will come when day
b year long. Then there will be no
more days and nights. no weeks and no
months The earth always Will nave
enc side to the sun. and the moon VIII
have one side to the earth. and the two
Vill turn around the sun once year
. If fixed on a rigid bar, There will
be no more seasons on the earth-no
spring, summer. autumn or winter
The weather Of the several seasons
can be experienced only by travelling
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