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...earth's climate is affected by interstellar dust and gas that sometimes shut off much of the sun's light. The Ice Ages were caused partly by such shadowing, partly by the slipping of the earth's crust, which shifted now-tropical sections of the earth's surface into the polar regions...
...greatly fear one thing. If men will not clothe the bare framework of science with the warm garments of true humanism, they will end up by making machines their god and mathematics their only dogma. The rising paganism of the western world will make our civilization cold as interstellar spaces, ruthless as the atoms which smash each other...
Somewhere between the mysteries of the atom and the endless wastes of interstellar space, man seems to drift in helpless ignorance of the powers and purposes that hold him. The universe that once seemed to be clockwork now throbs with awesome power, before which modern men (including scientists) turn to God. On the other hand, Freud and hormones have mechanized man's yearning heart; man's emotions no longer lead easily from...
Meanwhile, out in the cold reaches of outer space, a band of interstellar cavemen were put to flight just as they were about to burn alive Vena, the beautiful navigator for Rocky Jones, Space Ranger; a bearded, mad scientist was certain to be thwarted by right-thinking Captain Video who, as the press release puts it, is an unbeatable "combination of Einstein, King Arthur and Marco Polo," and Space Patrol's Commander Buzz Corry was zooming through the cosmos intent on reforming the almost limitless supply of villains with his soul-washing Brain-O-Graph...
...most startling invention since the Sky Hook-the "Meteor Scoop." Details are not disclosed (presumably they are not yet known to the Russians), but the principle is evident: the rocket has a lower lip that drops down at the strategic moment, and the meteorite just pops in like an interstellar sourball...