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Planeteer Magazine, v. 2, isssue 1, March 1939
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Gordon was rapidly formulating a philosophy. In the excitement of every moment, Gordon did not neglect to communicate with Earth as he had promised. At lease once every day -- he had brought a clock that he kept would at all times -- he talked with those back in the Michigan home. His mother and father were reconciled to his absence now. Once Gordon found Ornoo crouched at the controls, a great sadness in his eyes. He wondered -- and then passed on to some mythical task. Ornoo would tell him his trouble if he liked. Later, Ornoo saw fit to explain. "You wonder why I brood a little at times? ... I told you in my narrative of my travels that before landing on Earth I studied the sphere minutely. Well, I saw that it was the tomb of my race. The Ice Age of your planet was their undoing. Earth was the world upon which my race settled. They settled before the dynasty of Man. Yes, the Ice Age of Earth erradicated a whole race. They were at fault, though, They thoughtlessly allowed the fuel to deteriorate, the refining machines to rust and become inefficient; and they failed, to look forward to the emergency of another migration, a grave error... I have avoided them; therefore, my life has been long and eventful. My immortality does not protect me from violence, you know." Silence fell. Each was wrapped in private thoughts. The ship went its way. With controls set, it did not need the guidence of hands. Even as each thought, it came closer and closer to a system that tlay beyond the prow. THE END "SMALLEST THING IN THE WORLD" (A scientific article) By Mario Racic Jr. The smallest thing in the world as known to science is the electron. The diameter of one of these, considered as a sphere, is about 1/5,000,000,000,000 (one 5-thousand-billionth) of an inch. It would require five trillions of these particles, placed side by side to make an inch. It is these that constitute what we know as 'electric current'. They are individual 'specks' which follow one another, on orbits around the nucleus of an atom, at a speed of that of light, and constitute the 'electricity'. The electron weighs about one eleven-octillionth of an ounce. The mass of an electron is about 1-1845th of the mass of the hydogen atom. Mass, means the amount of matter in a thing, and in the case of the electron it is the same thing as its amount of electricity... The amount of electrons in a atom varies. In a atom of uranium (the largest) we find there are 148 in its nucleus and 92 outside the nucleus. In a atom of hydrogen there is only one electron... The electrons, not only have been weighed and measure, but also have been counted in their flight along conductors, and we know how many electrons per se are required to give the light we get in an ordinary light bulb. The quantity of electricity which courses through such a bulb every sec (so Millikan says) is so large, that if 2,000,000 persons were to begin to count out these electrons, and to keep on counting out, each at a rate of two a sec, and no one of the counters were ever to sleep or die it would take them about 20,000 years to finish the task. -- finis--
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Gordon was rapidly formulating a philosophy. In the excitement of every moment, Gordon did not neglect to communicate with Earth as he had promised. At lease once every day -- he had brought a clock that he kept would at all times -- he talked with those back in the Michigan home. His mother and father were reconciled to his absence now. Once Gordon found Ornoo crouched at the controls, a great sadness in his eyes. He wondered -- and then passed on to some mythical task. Ornoo would tell him his trouble if he liked. Later, Ornoo saw fit to explain. "You wonder why I brood a little at times? ... I told you in my narrative of my travels that before landing on Earth I studied the sphere minutely. Well, I saw that it was the tomb of my race. The Ice Age of your planet was their undoing. Earth was the world upon which my race settled. They settled before the dynasty of Man. Yes, the Ice Age of Earth erradicated a whole race. They were at fault, though, They thoughtlessly allowed the fuel to deteriorate, the refining machines to rust and become inefficient; and they failed, to look forward to the emergency of another migration, a grave error... I have avoided them; therefore, my life has been long and eventful. My immortality does not protect me from violence, you know." Silence fell. Each was wrapped in private thoughts. The ship went its way. With controls set, it did not need the guidence of hands. Even as each thought, it came closer and closer to a system that tlay beyond the prow. THE END "SMALLEST THING IN THE WORLD" (A scientific article) By Mario Racic Jr. The smallest thing in the world as known to science is the electron. The diameter of one of these, considered as a sphere, is about 1/5,000,000,000,000 (one 5-thousand-billionth) of an inch. It would require five trillions of these particles, placed side by side to make an inch. It is these that constitute what we know as 'electric current'. They are individual 'specks' which follow one another, on orbits around the nucleus of an atom, at a speed of that of light, and constitute the 'electricity'. The electron weighs about one eleven-octillionth of an ounce. The mass of an electron is about 1-1845th of the mass of the hydogen atom. Mass, means the amount of matter in a thing, and in the case of the electron it is the same thing as its amount of electricity... The amount of electrons in a atom varies. In a atom of uranium (the largest) we find there are 148 in its nucleus and 92 outside the nucleus. In a atom of hydrogen there is only one electron... The electrons, not only have been weighed and measure, but also have been counted in their flight along conductors, and we know how many electrons per se are required to give the light we get in an ordinary light bulb. The quantity of electricity which courses through such a bulb every sec (so Millikan says) is so large, that if 2,000,000 persons were to begin to count out these electrons, and to keep on counting out, each at a rate of two a sec, and no one of the counters were ever to sleep or die it would take them about 20,000 years to finish the task. -- finis--
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