Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon when a 50-ft. saucer skimmed right past his camera to land beside him, and this tall fellow hopped out. The stranger, Allingham says, looked just like any North Briton except for a "forehead higher than that of any man I know." When Allingham sketched a sun with planets orbiting round it on a pad, he says, the visitor smiled and pointed to the fourth planet and then to his own space-suited figure. That clearly placed his home on Mars...
...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 popped back into his saucer and sped off to space...
...both Russia and the U.S. could publicize the development of a weapon that was powerful enough to destroy the whole planet and not outlaw the use of this weapon, war then would be unthinkable. Both would of necessity have to get down to the business of living together on the same planet in peace, eternal peace...
...past two years," wrote Martin, "there have been about ten H-bomb explosions, each of them equivalent to from 1,000 to 2,500 A-bombs of the type used at Hiroshima. Their effects are on a scale involving an appreciable fraction of the planet. Certain effects on the atmosphere may upset the natural conditions to which life has become adapted...
Graham compromised by agreeing both with Gross, that to "accentuate differences would be unwise" and with Cousins, that all people have a "desire for survival on this planet...