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...cubes turned out to be the only source of water they had. The inexperienced crewmen could not row back to the Amphitrite. Neither could they make the shore. Pushed by the current and the 40-m.p.h. gale from the northeast, they drifted helplessly southwestward, parallel to the shoreline...
...Cape Cantin off the Moroccan coast. The wind, heavy laden with desert sand, seized the yacht, drove it inshore and dashed it on the reefs. A surging wave flung a steward overboard to his death. Another knocked Claude's French maid Cecile to the deck. McEvoy's crewmen picked her up and lashed her to a mast for safety, but a moment later the wind tore her loose, and she was washed away...
...Southwest was already abuzz with rumors. The fireballs were being pinned on White Sands (rocket) Proving Ground in southern New Mexico, as well as on the Nevada bomb testers. So far, no one had yet suggested another invasion of the famous flying saucers with their bright little crewmen from Venus or Mars. But people were beginning to report "things in the sky" as far away as New Jersey and New York...
Bottled Air. Another aeropause problem is air. Crewmen must have the kind of air they are accustomed to, and such air is hard to find in the aeropause. To compress the thin outside air to breathable density and dissipate the heat of compression would take heavy machinery, and the air so gathered might not be fit to breathe. At 100,000 ft. it contains enough ozone, formed out of oxygen by the sun's ultraviolet light, to poison crewmen. Probably the air they breathe will have to be "bottled...
...occupants feel no gravitation. They become weightless. In the comics they float around merrily, enjoying their new freedom, but in sober fact they will probably behave like stumbling idiots. The human body's sense-organs that control balance and muscular action need gravity to guide them. The crewmen of space ships will need a lot of training before they can make their bewildered bodies behave...