The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-12
COMMUNICATION

To the Editor:
 Any scientific discovery requires a basis of faith. The inventor sees the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and sets out to find it.
 If he did not believe that he would eventually find fortune and success he would never accomplish anything.
 Before the Wright Brothers f.sw their airplane at Kitty Hawk in 1903. had designed centrifugal de- vice to fly to the stars. The de- sign was only half correct, but l never gave up my plan to build a wheel that would be entirely cor rect.
 I whirled a weight over my head attached to cord and as it passed near the ceiling I could feel it tug upward. This tug intrigued me and I determined to make use of it.
 The moon tugs upward as it careens through the sky and the same fierce on a machine would lift an airplane up into the blue sky far above the earth. This airplane would land on the moon and ex- plore the hidden hemisphere which must Ee Utopia.
 The scriptures support this idea and tell of a woman standing on the moon, in Revelation, Chapter 12, verse l.
 If the moon was the wilderness described by science, so called, what would become of the woman? She would perish for lack of air, but this circumstance was not mentioned by St. John.
 I have worked out theory for flight in space There's no doubt of its accuracy. I am ready to start work on the superman device. I don't want it for war but for explor- ation, as I intend to employ Ger man chef and Japanese waiter in the dining room of my car, and as my steward will be an American there will be considerable friction on the airship unless an armistice is signed before the airplane takes off.
 Of course I am joking about my crew, but I am looking forward to an end of the war so that I can reach heaven in peace.
 All airplanes travelling in outer space take a lifetime to reach the planets, according to scientific writ CTS.
 They are mathematicians who don't use figures, nor know anything about force, unless it be to teach a class, and then they know so much that it quite overcomes the class to think how much they know
 It is elementary that constant force develops accelerated motion, but the scientific writer insists on uniform velocity in outer space. They also advocate the use of rock cts. Sir James Jeans has published a book entitled Through Space and Time. Time is pr. Einstein's cheese, and fourth dimensional cake which may be sliced and eaten.
 On page 110 Sir James says So far we have merely been looking at the moon from distance. Let us now charter a rocket to take us there, so that we can actually walk ont it's surface"
 This idea is quite absurd as rocket will blow off all it's gas in the first minute of it's voyage. It is a reaction device and the momentum of the discharged gas equals the momen- tum of the car. To get any reaction at all forty pounds of gas must be discharged per second.
 On page 138 Sir James says: If we are planning to take our rocket to Mars, it is clear that we must again take air and water with us"
 On page 203 he says: Our rocket, travelling at 5000 miles an hour" " etc.
 He carries the rocket through most of his book at uniform speed. This is proof of two things. First, he doesn't realize how short-lived a rocket is. It will last for o.ie min- ute; and second, he doesn't under stand that constant force de- velops accelerated motion. The roc ket gives constant force and rises with accelerated velocity. It's mo- ton is not uniform at anytime af- ter leaving the earth.
 These scientists are the most over rated people. on earth and their word is law. They stand where the