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Atres Artes, v. 1, issue 3, 1946
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Fantasy Article ARTES ARTES by R. Sneary So again let us suppose that you have brought your ship down safely. The first thing you will notice is that you seem to be weigh less than you do on Earth. Venus has a gravity only .698 that of Earth's so you would seem to lose about 10% of your weight. You will want to go outside, no doubt, so put on your space suits with a cooling unit in them. You will want to be cool as it is pretty warm there. Due to the law of inverse square of radiation, it gets almost twice as much heat from the sun as we do, but the mirroring clouds send a lot of it back into space. If you are near the Equator, you will see the seas slowly boiling, sending off vast clouds of steam. (( It does [illegible] have to contain water to create steam. Ed.)) If you happen to be at one of those polls you will find it as warm as Earth's equatorial regions. No one is sure how long the days are on Venus, but they are believed to be between 20 and 30 Earth days, for if Venus rotated one thirtieth as rapidly as Earth, the equator would bulge slightly under centrifugal force. And on the other hand it could not keep the same face to the Sun as Mercury does, for then one side would always be dark and would become cold and there would be clouds, only vast glaciers of fallen snow. A year on Venus would be 225 Earth days and with a little figuring one finds that it travels 196,245,464 miles a year, or 827,846,48 miles a day, which isn't loafing. Now you are no doubt wondering if you are going to find any intelligent beings, or any living thing there. Well, it is thought most likely that you would, but probably not at all like anything we known on Earth. There are a number of gases besides oxygen that can support life, so though oxygen may be there only in small amounts, beings of some kind could exist. Due to the climate, one might presume that life would be reptilian in nature. A cold blooded animal would be most likely to survive the long hot days and equally long and probably cold nights. If you and your friends find it too uncomfortable, you had better hurry back to Earth, as you don't want too wait the 580 days until Earth will swing around close to Venus. So now you know as much about Venus as anyone does now. I have given you many facts and theories, and a few guesses of my own, and no one as yet can say they are wrong. For though we on Earth have known about Venus for over ten-thousands years, we know less about it than about Neptune, discovered in the last few years. There is hope that may soon know more. Radar has been sent to the Moon and mapped its surface; someday they may bridge the gap between us and Venus and then man may see the surface of Venus at last even if only on a screen. *It was known to be a planet by the Mayans of Central America and its orbit computed 1,500 years before the Europeans accepted the planetary theory. RS The End --------------------------- We wish here to thank John Cockroft. John, besides doing the illustrations blue-printed this issue offered to publish this issue. Unfortunately, he had a collapse before he could do more than the first 3 pages. So the job reverted to us. Thanks just the same, John. Hope you're feeling better. -- the editors ------------------------- -- Page 22 --
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Fantasy Article ARTES ARTES by R. Sneary So again let us suppose that you have brought your ship down safely. The first thing you will notice is that you seem to be weigh less than you do on Earth. Venus has a gravity only .698 that of Earth's so you would seem to lose about 10% of your weight. You will want to go outside, no doubt, so put on your space suits with a cooling unit in them. You will want to be cool as it is pretty warm there. Due to the law of inverse square of radiation, it gets almost twice as much heat from the sun as we do, but the mirroring clouds send a lot of it back into space. If you are near the Equator, you will see the seas slowly boiling, sending off vast clouds of steam. (( It does [illegible] have to contain water to create steam. Ed.)) If you happen to be at one of those polls you will find it as warm as Earth's equatorial regions. No one is sure how long the days are on Venus, but they are believed to be between 20 and 30 Earth days, for if Venus rotated one thirtieth as rapidly as Earth, the equator would bulge slightly under centrifugal force. And on the other hand it could not keep the same face to the Sun as Mercury does, for then one side would always be dark and would become cold and there would be clouds, only vast glaciers of fallen snow. A year on Venus would be 225 Earth days and with a little figuring one finds that it travels 196,245,464 miles a year, or 827,846,48 miles a day, which isn't loafing. Now you are no doubt wondering if you are going to find any intelligent beings, or any living thing there. Well, it is thought most likely that you would, but probably not at all like anything we known on Earth. There are a number of gases besides oxygen that can support life, so though oxygen may be there only in small amounts, beings of some kind could exist. Due to the climate, one might presume that life would be reptilian in nature. A cold blooded animal would be most likely to survive the long hot days and equally long and probably cold nights. If you and your friends find it too uncomfortable, you had better hurry back to Earth, as you don't want too wait the 580 days until Earth will swing around close to Venus. So now you know as much about Venus as anyone does now. I have given you many facts and theories, and a few guesses of my own, and no one as yet can say they are wrong. For though we on Earth have known about Venus for over ten-thousands years, we know less about it than about Neptune, discovered in the last few years. There is hope that may soon know more. Radar has been sent to the Moon and mapped its surface; someday they may bridge the gap between us and Venus and then man may see the surface of Venus at last even if only on a screen. *It was known to be a planet by the Mayans of Central America and its orbit computed 1,500 years before the Europeans accepted the planetary theory. RS The End --------------------------- We wish here to thank John Cockroft. John, besides doing the illustrations blue-printed this issue offered to publish this issue. Unfortunately, he had a collapse before he could do more than the first 3 pages. So the job reverted to us. Thanks just the same, John. Hope you're feeling better. -- the editors ------------------------- -- Page 22 --
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