NOT DEAD YET
EARTH’S MILLIONS OF YEARS “The earth is the only living member of the majestic eternal march of ghost worlds round the sun, which will last for millions of years,” Professor Sir James Jeans told children in a Christmas lecture. He added that the earth is almost certainly the only planet on which life abounds, as on Mercury the temperature is 650 degrees and on Saturn 240 degrees below zero. Although there was sufficient oxygen there to support life, Mars was as cold as a Russian or Canadian winter.
If the so-called canals were real they would appear curved and not as straight lines. He added that some day, perhaps, millions of years hence, the moon Will be drawn into the earth’s “danger zone,” when the poise of gravitation will stretch it into an egg shape, and then split it into fragments which will ring the earth in a Saturn-like halo.
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Putaruru Press, Volume XII, Issue 562, 8 March 1934, Page 3
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