Thoughtfully and with much love and reverence, yet with a feeling of
inexpressible joy, they replied, "yes. But He is also the ruler of your
Earth, and of infinite space. He is what you call God on Earth, and the
Creator of all things, to us the Supreme All Intelligence."
And on their uniforms they had the same picture as an insignia, and on
their caps they had a cupid with wings supported by clouds.
They told us that every home, everybody, and every ship has this
insignia on Jupiter. There is not an act performed on Jupiter that the
presence in mind is not the presence of the All Supreme Ruler.
Then they changed the subject and told us that this ship of theirs
was capable of travelling from one million to two and a half million
miles per hour. In it they had space for provisions and all that was
necessary for the comfort of passengers for a twelve month cruise
through space, if that was desired. But they didn't mention how many
passengers they could thus accommodate.
In case of breakdown, they could repair their ships in space,
having mechanics with them for that purpose. They told us that all
ships of interstellar space travelling were built to hover in space
indefinitely, if they wanted to.
Here we asked if any of them ever crashed through mechanical breakdowns.
Their response was, that so far as they knew, all such ships were
foolproof. They continued that some sixty thousand years previously,
when interstellar space travelling was first undertaken, there had been
many crashes, but all that has long ago been overcome and now there is
never a crash.
These pilots from Jupiter are around five feet, six inches tall and
very alert.
We asked them if they were the general height of the people on Jupiter.
They replied that the majority of the people on their planet were
around five feet, eleven inches to six feet tall, but for ships they
had a uniform law of picking men of their height. Of course, all of
this was given to us by the white chieftain through signs, for he
could understand what these men from Jupiter were saying. He acted as
our interpreter, and we must say right here and now that one thing
we marvelled at, these native people, like the chieftain, were very
capable in transferring information through the sign language. And we
ourselves didn't do so bad at understanding it, either.
We are about to get a surprise, I see. All eyes are turned to four men
coming our way. They are very tall, we would say they are about six
feet, six inches.
These men have now reached our group and are shaking hands with the two
Jupiter pilots with whom we have been visiting. Our Jupiter friends
seem to be telling them about us.
These men also are wearing uniforms but their insignia is different
than all the others we have seen. It is of three wings in the center of
which is a body that looks like a large bird, yet represents a ship,
while the insignia on their caps is of our solar system with the sun
and all the planets with their satellites.
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