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Though the U.S. weather satellite Tiros I still circles the earth every 99 minutes, it is electronically dead. Yet during its active life of 78 days, Tiros I transmitted 22,952 cloud-cover pictures that still keep meteorologists in a state of round-eyed euphoria. Never before had earthmen seen so sweeping a view of their planet's splotchy atmosphere...
...this visit is a prelude to invasion, the amiable Kreton notes "the wonderful, primitive assumption that all strangers are hostile." By this time it is clear that Kreton's people would not have the earth if it were handed to them on a platinum flying saucer. Some earthmen noted early in the visit that Kreton was a mere eccentric. Otherwise, what was he doing returning "to the Dark Ages of this insignificant planet?" But his visit proved an illuminating spoof, and British Actor Cyril Ritchard proved a fine spoofer...
...could not understand his words, but his gestures were clear enough"), whether the Earth people would start another war. Allingham says he was only able to shrug hopefully in reply. After indicating that he had visited both Venus and the Moon says Allingham, the Martian also asked if Earthmen would soon reach the Moon. When Allingham nodded, the Martian's broad brow clouded up. "And who can blame them?" asks the author. "We have not yet proved ourselves fit to rule our own planet, let alone visit others and perhaps influence their affairs." Soon after, reports Allingham, the Martian...
Theologically speaking, there are four principal classes into which outer-space dwellers might fall: 1) they might have received, like earthmen, a supernatural destiny from God, might even have lost it and been redeemed; 2) God could have created them with a natural but eternal destiny, i.e., like infants who die unbaptized, they could live a life of natural happiness after death, without beholding God face to face; 3) they might be rational beings who sinned against God but were never given the chance to regain grace, like evil angels of the Fall; or 4) they might have received supernatural...
...distant planet, inhabited by men far more scientifically advanced than earth, has done away with war. Now that the earthmen have rocket power almost within their grasp, the space people are afraid that aggression will spread to other hemispheres. They send an envoy on a mission to rid the earth of war, but people have become so imbued with a distrust towards anything that will bring about real peace, that the envoy has to take drastic measures and is almost destroyed in the process...