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SPACETEER Page 11 THE CHECK UP One of George Cuvier's pupils, aware of the famous naturalist's preoccupation with scientific problems, decided to play a trick on him. So, dressed in a red devil costume, the practical joker pounced unexpectedly on Cuvier. "I'm going to eat you!" the pupil roared ferociously. Cuvier calmly stepped back and quickly examined the devil. Then he remarked: "Horns, hoofs, herbivorous. You can't do it!" The check up... It wasn't too long ago that the newspapers carried a story that, here in Milwaukee anyway, made the headlines. It was the story of a G.E. scientist who started a snowstorm in Massachusetts by tossing dry-ice pellets into a cloud. All the popular science publications ate up this 'news'. Well, here comes the check up...Back in July 1934 Modern Mechanix had a sketch of an airplane flying over a cloud. What was the pilot of this plane doing? He was scattering dry-ice pellets into the cloud. The object: to got rain. The results: rain to an area six miles square in Holland, brought about by a chemist named Veraart who scattered 3200 pounds of dry-ice. I wish I could locate a clipping of a Virgil Finlay drawing I have from an old American Weekly. It presented the same outre figures and beasties that the jacket to HPL's Outsider presented, even to the young, princess-like lady holding the monsters in check. But this is the check up... ON page 43 of the current ASF(June) Hartwell, a character in "Letter to Ellen", unveils a 'ghastly green thing' that seems to have been a misbegotten coelenterate. He remarks that it is viable and might outsurvive some of it's natural cousins if given a mate and turned loose. This type of animal, even though man-made, would probably continue to reproduce asexually, though Hartwell and Chan Davis seem to have neglected to consider this perfectly natural coelenterate process. A.E. Van Vogt's explanation for the mysterious velocity of the Centaurus II, on page 38, is amusing, though probably clever pseudo-science. R. S. Richardson mentions a theory proposed by Gamov and Teller (in "How Did Heavy Elements Originate", Tympany #5, 12 May 1947) in which the heavy elements derived from extremely heavy elements. How were the 'extremely heavy elements' produced? Chicken and the egg? Floating spores of life? The check up...
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SPACETEER Page 11 THE CHECK UP One of George Cuvier's pupils, aware of the famous naturalist's preoccupation with scientific problems, decided to play a trick on him. So, dressed in a red devil costume, the practical joker pounced unexpectedly on Cuvier. "I'm going to eat you!" the pupil roared ferociously. Cuvier calmly stepped back and quickly examined the devil. Then he remarked: "Horns, hoofs, herbivorous. You can't do it!" The check up... It wasn't too long ago that the newspapers carried a story that, here in Milwaukee anyway, made the headlines. It was the story of a G.E. scientist who started a snowstorm in Massachusetts by tossing dry-ice pellets into a cloud. All the popular science publications ate up this 'news'. Well, here comes the check up...Back in July 1934 Modern Mechanix had a sketch of an airplane flying over a cloud. What was the pilot of this plane doing? He was scattering dry-ice pellets into the cloud. The object: to got rain. The results: rain to an area six miles square in Holland, brought about by a chemist named Veraart who scattered 3200 pounds of dry-ice. I wish I could locate a clipping of a Virgil Finlay drawing I have from an old American Weekly. It presented the same outre figures and beasties that the jacket to HPL's Outsider presented, even to the young, princess-like lady holding the monsters in check. But this is the check up... ON page 43 of the current ASF(June) Hartwell, a character in "Letter to Ellen", unveils a 'ghastly green thing' that seems to have been a misbegotten coelenterate. He remarks that it is viable and might outsurvive some of it's natural cousins if given a mate and turned loose. This type of animal, even though man-made, would probably continue to reproduce asexually, though Hartwell and Chan Davis seem to have neglected to consider this perfectly natural coelenterate process. A.E. Van Vogt's explanation for the mysterious velocity of the Centaurus II, on page 38, is amusing, though probably clever pseudo-science. R. S. Richardson mentions a theory proposed by Gamov and Teller (in "How Did Heavy Elements Originate", Tympany #5, 12 May 1947) in which the heavy elements derived from extremely heavy elements. How were the 'extremely heavy elements' produced? Chicken and the egg? Floating spores of life? The check up...
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