We have seen the futility of meddling in everyone's business on Earth. Let's not make that mistake in space. We are unalterably opposed to the UP (United Planets) and call upon the governments of Earth not to join that Inter-Solar System boondoggle. We have enough trouble right here. THE APPENDIX CONFIDENTIAL: _Blast-off_: The equivalent of the take-off of Terran aviation. Space ships blast-off into space. Not to be confused with the report of a sawed-off shot gun. _Blasting pit_: Place from which a space ship blasts off. Guarded area where the intense heat from the jets melts the ground. Also used for cock-fights. _Spacemen_: Those who man the space ships. See any comic strip. _Hairoscope_: A very sensitive instrument for space navigation. The sighting plate thereon is centered around two crossed hairs. Because of the vastness of space, very fine hairs are used. These hairs are obtained from the Glomph-Frog, found only in the heart of the dense Venusian swamps. The hairoscope is a must in space navigation. Then how did they get to Venus to get the hair from the Glomph-Frog? Read Venus Confidential. _Multiplanetary agitation_: The inter-spacial methods by which the Russians compete for the minds of the Neptunians and the Plutonians and the Gowaniuns. _Space suit_: The clothing worn by those who go into space. The men are put into modernistic diving suits. The dames wear bras and panties. _Grav-plates_: A form of magnetic shoe worn by spacemen while standing on the outer hull of a space ship halfway to Mars. Why a spaceman wants to stand on the outer hull of a ship halfway to Mars is not clear. Possibly to win a bet. _Space platform_: A man-made satellite rotating around Earth between here and the Moon. Scientists say this is a necessary first step to interplanetary travel. Mars Confidential proves the fallacy of this theory. _Space Academy_: A college where young men are trained to be spacemen. The student body consists mainly of cadets who served apprenticeships as elevator jockeys. _Asteroids_: Tiny worlds floating around in space, put there no doubt to annoy unwary space ships. _Extrapolation_: The process by which a science-fiction writer takes an established scientific fact and builds thereon a story that couldn't happen in a million years, but maybe 2,000,000. _Science fiction_: A genre of escape literature which takes the reader to far-away planets--and usually neglects to bring him back. _S.F._: An abbreviation for science fiction.