Word: martian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of dress rehearsal for this year's event. Astronomers have devised new tricks and instruments. Much of their equipment has improved materially in the last few years. Photographic films are faster and finer-grained. They may have improved enough to get a photographic record of the fleeting Martian details that visual observers believe they have seen. If plain telescopic photography does not succeed, one of the several electronic devices that amplify light may do the trick...
Even if the astronomers do not get better pictures of Mars, they will surely learn new facts about it. Such fast-improving devices as the infra-red spectrometer will tell new details about the composition of the Martian atmosphere...
...fascinating detail. These intervals of good "seeing," however, do not last long enough to be photographed, and the human eye-brain combination is not designed for recording much information instantaneously. So Mars observers seldom agree about what they have seen on Mars. The Lumicon and similar devices may end Martian privacy. Even a single good picture may tell whether there is any life on Mars...
...liven up the opening of a mental health exhibit in London, Britain's waggish Minister of Labor, Sir Walter Monckton, tried on a brain-wave recording device for size, came out looking as if he were a fugitive from a Martian barbershop...
...first interplanetary padre, confronted by an antennaed Martian or fly-eyed Venusian, will hardly know what to say about the Gospel. First he will have to find out how the space creature stands with God: Is he in an unfallen state like Adam and Eve before the apple? Is he fallen but redeemed and, if so, how? Is he under the Lordship of Christ, and should he be baptized...