The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-03-28

qualifications for life as air and water
but IN scarce quantities. Its atmos-
Iphere is rare ard the oceans are
dried up. But the Italian Astrono-
mer Schiaparelli discovered canals
that are crossing the planet and at
the poles snow caps are shown that
are melting with summers approach
and there are various seasons and
climatic changes. Some astronomers
believe that Mars is inhabited and
others argue against it on account
of the climate and the lightness of
the air. This is to measure all life
by our own standards and our planet
may not be the model for all eondi-
tons of life. We live at the bottom
of an ocean of air, subject to ire
mendous pressure of several tons on
everything and on our bodies Is
pounds to the square inch. We would
explode if brought up to very high
attitudes like the fishes and animals
from the bottom of the sea who live
at tremendous pressure and differ
ent conditions of air than we do. It
was belived at one time that nothing
could live at a depth of three and
one-half miles in the sea which now
is q demonstrated fact. Let us sup
pose now that Mars is inhabited and
the home of intelligent beings who
would train their spectroscopes on
our planets and find out about our
atmosphere, its condition and weight,
they certainly would come to the
conclusion that according to their
standard of life, this planet would be
impossible to live on because every
thing would be crushed and that the
earth would not be fit to live on for
ages before this heavy atmosphere
had been dissipated in to space or
absorbed. Then there are other con-
siderations: may not the chemicals
composing living things be arranged
in different proportions to conform
with surroundings and conditions?
Mars is evidently a much older
planet than ours and has reached
state that is the future of the earth.
1t comes as near to us as 35 millions
of miles and travels away from us
to lao million miles. 1t has year
about twice as long as ours and turns
on its axis in "a hours, 81 minutes
and 22.7 of a second. The next field
in space is occupied by the asteroids
or planetoids, an innumberable num-
Der of small planets, some mere
speeks, all going through the same
motions as the big ones and supposed
at one time to be an exploded planet
but now thought to be planet that
never got a chance to be formed ow-
ing to the gravitation of Jupiter.
Next we come to Jupiter, the giant
of the planets with nine Moons and
year of twelve of ours. Jupiter will
be the home of life when our planet
has ceased to function. Perhaps,
ages and ages from now when the
earth is a cold cemetery, other planets
will take up the task of supporting
life and harbor great civilizations.
AS we travel on, we come to Saturn
with its ten moons and its wonderful
rings, one of the most remarkable
sights of our planetary system. When
Saturn turns his broadside towards
us and we can see his wonderful rings
he is indeed wonderful, and then the
planet gradually turns the other way
and the fings become almost invisible.
He is a very large planet and would
float as cork if a sea was large
enough to hold him.
The next planet is Uranus, located |
at distance from the sun of 1884,
$4,000 miles and this planet was dis
covered as late as 1881. 1t was found |
that this planet went out of its
course, pulled by something unknown.
Somebody pulled it out of its straight
and narrow path, not far however.
So the astronomers went to work and
made their calculations. An English
man and Frenchman worked at it
and also notified Gagermann, an as
Dr. Gale in Berlin to look
in a certain place at certain time.
DR.. Gale happened to have made up
a map of this particular part of the
universe of the stars located there,
and a new planet was located at the
distance of 2,790000,000
miles and was called Neptune. 1t
shows the wonderful accomplishments
If mathematical astronomy This
planet has year of about 165 of ours.
The further off they are, the longer