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Kay-Mar Trader, v. 2, issue 3, May 1947
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"Journeys made 'over the pole'...lead us to believe that such journeys brought the explorer on the other side of the pole, or, in other words, advanced him to the temperate zone from whence he had started. Such has never been the case. And no modern explorer would admit of such happening...We must completely banish from our minds the concept of the poles. Each mile advanced beyond the imaginative poles will be leading into universe around us, which appears 'up'." But, Mr. Giannini, what do the astronomers say about your theories? They peer into telescopes and see stars moving every which-way at speeds of thousands of miles per second. They say that -- "Galileo observed 'rounded bodies circling or ellipsing in space' and nobody in the past 500 years has dared...to question that magnificent fallacy which was given birth through sight's habitual pranks...No point of light...in the universe around us, regardless of its astronomical designation, possesses any features of the movement accredited to it." What about the moon, Mr. Giannini? It looks like a globe to me and it doesn't look like a hunk of a cosmic doughnut -- "As the human lens draws to a focal point it must cause the object under observation to take on rounded or globular proportions...We were to ascend into the stratosphere, we would be compelled to see our earth as many illuminated, rounded and isolated bodies. And as we increased our distance every such apparently rounded and isolated body, representing the various sections, would appear to be in motion." Gosh, Mr. G., this is more fascinating than a dero hunt. It is even more fun than Fort's hypothesis that the heavens are a shell a few miles above the earth. Just like the astronomers say, Mr. G., if you are wrong, at least you are wrong "on a colossal scale." But gee, Mr. G., what are we waiting for? Let's be off. * * * Heck, I thought it was a long walk from Caen to Berlin. But here I am, under a full field hump, marching off to Mars! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TIME TO TRY TYM! YES, Time To Try Tympany, fandom's latest newszine, if you don't know...WHAT Nobel prize winner was foto'd reading Astounding (see Tym #4); WHAT happened when Arthur J. Burks wrote "fan fiction" (see Tym #2); WHAT Heinlein yarn inspired Fritz Leiber's Gather, Darkness! (see Tym #1); WHAT new song is scientifictional, lyrically-speaking (see Tym #3); WHAT happens when a man of the future "Ossianizes" (see Tym #5)…. TYMPANY SUBSCRIBERS KNOW -- DO YOU? Tympany appears bi-weekly at 5c per copy or six for 25c. Write... BOB STEIN, 514 West Vienna Ave., Milwaukee 12, Wisconsin. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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"Journeys made 'over the pole'...lead us to believe that such journeys brought the explorer on the other side of the pole, or, in other words, advanced him to the temperate zone from whence he had started. Such has never been the case. And no modern explorer would admit of such happening...We must completely banish from our minds the concept of the poles. Each mile advanced beyond the imaginative poles will be leading into universe around us, which appears 'up'." But, Mr. Giannini, what do the astronomers say about your theories? They peer into telescopes and see stars moving every which-way at speeds of thousands of miles per second. They say that -- "Galileo observed 'rounded bodies circling or ellipsing in space' and nobody in the past 500 years has dared...to question that magnificent fallacy which was given birth through sight's habitual pranks...No point of light...in the universe around us, regardless of its astronomical designation, possesses any features of the movement accredited to it." What about the moon, Mr. Giannini? It looks like a globe to me and it doesn't look like a hunk of a cosmic doughnut -- "As the human lens draws to a focal point it must cause the object under observation to take on rounded or globular proportions...We were to ascend into the stratosphere, we would be compelled to see our earth as many illuminated, rounded and isolated bodies. And as we increased our distance every such apparently rounded and isolated body, representing the various sections, would appear to be in motion." Gosh, Mr. G., this is more fascinating than a dero hunt. It is even more fun than Fort's hypothesis that the heavens are a shell a few miles above the earth. Just like the astronomers say, Mr. G., if you are wrong, at least you are wrong "on a colossal scale." But gee, Mr. G., what are we waiting for? Let's be off. * * * Heck, I thought it was a long walk from Caen to Berlin. But here I am, under a full field hump, marching off to Mars! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TIME TO TRY TYM! YES, Time To Try Tympany, fandom's latest newszine, if you don't know...WHAT Nobel prize winner was foto'd reading Astounding (see Tym #4); WHAT happened when Arthur J. Burks wrote "fan fiction" (see Tym #2); WHAT Heinlein yarn inspired Fritz Leiber's Gather, Darkness! (see Tym #1); WHAT new song is scientifictional, lyrically-speaking (see Tym #3); WHAT happens when a man of the future "Ossianizes" (see Tym #5)…. TYMPANY SUBSCRIBERS KNOW -- DO YOU? Tympany appears bi-weekly at 5c per copy or six for 25c. Write... BOB STEIN, 514 West Vienna Ave., Milwaukee 12, Wisconsin. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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