"Speaking of meteors, in our House of Records we have an account of a
meteor falling through space and getting caught in the magnetic field
of an almost neutral zone where it went whirling in a circle just
outside the borderline of the gravitational powers. Becoming so hot
through continuous action, it became a sun and is still serving as a
sun in one of our present solar systems. The records shows that this
took place three hundred million years ago. During this time, around
this particular meteor known today as a sun, a solar system has been
built upon which human life is just beginning."
"Since this has become known, scientists on other planets are beginning
to wonder if others of our suns have not come into being just that way."
"With the type of telescope your men on Earth have, they cannot see
this system, but with our telescope we can see it. Its distance is one
billion sextillion light years from Mars."
We are now half way to Venus and encountering so many meteors that
they almost illuminate our path. These are of various colors and look
much like different types of fireworks. Some appear to be cold as we
see them by the light of others. On this screen which we have been
watching, we can see meteors of different sizes, some would easily
weigh twenty to fifty tons. These large ones must call for a tremendous
repulsing power to turn them away from the ship. We wonder how strong
it really is.
Sensing the question in our minds, the scientist explains that it
doesn't take much power since it operates on what we would call a down
force. Once a meteor hits the repulsing wall it begins to fall, so
to speak, instead of continuing on its forward path. But we noticed
that when the fifty ton meteor was sighted they threw in the second
repulsing wall, probably just as a precaution. It really looked just
like a big ball of fire.
He is telling us that, "some meteors have fallen on Mars weighing
around fifteen million tons. Since all meteors are largely composed of
iron as well as other minerals, we Martonians have an electro-magnet
so powerful that we can pull them right out of the ground and then
cut them open to study their composition. Some of these meteors have
contained crystals so hard within their centers that we had nothing
which could cut them. One time an exceptionally large meteor hit our
planet which, because of its immense size and the force with which it
hit, we did not try to remove from the ground for twenty years. Even
after that length of time, when we pulled it out and cut it open, it
was still tremendously hot in the center. In cutting this one we were
lucky for we missed the pocket of crystals, otherwise we would never
have been able to cut it in half."
We have passed through the gap between Mars and Venus which was nine
million miles in width, but riding in this ship is so very smooth that
we didn't know we had entered it until we were told.
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