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...Sometimes, in a strong puff, one or more blew over; but after thrashing about in the water for a while their crews climbed in again, bailed, and sailed on or waited for a tow. In short, as the saucer man would have been fully justified in reporting to his interstellar G2, the Americans have found a big new way of getting sunburned, soaked to the skin and happily exhausted...
...immersion), sending him to a Presbyterian Sunday school, and letting him enroll in a Methodist young people's society. In Colgate University Harry Fosdick encountered Doubt. "I'm building another [universe] and leaving God out," he told his mother. But God got back in through the interstellar space, and in 1901 Fosdick was at Union, preparing for the ministry...
...Some interstellar space men have a more ingenious answer than this Noah's Ark method. If a space ship moves at nearly the speed of light, its time slows down. It can sail like a cosmic ray for thousands of earth-years from star to star, but for its crew only weeks will pass. When they return to earth, however, they will all be Rip Van Winkles: their friends and families will long since have passed into ancient history...
...answer to the time problem is "nature's way": reproduction. Individuals die, but species need not. An interstellar breeding-ship with a male & female crew would need close population control and the careful "recycling of biological material" (i.e., eating the dead). It would also need a university on board to preserve the cultural level of the original crew. But if all went well, the generation could colonize the Pleiades...
...Other interstellar enthusiasts favor taking short cuts through the fourth dimension. The best way to visualize this scheme is to imagine "two-dimensional people" who spend their lives on the surface of a sheet of paper, and who cannot form any conception of the three-dimensional world. If the paper were bent into a deep U, they could not cut across from one edge to the other; they would have to go around the fold...