One of the pilots tells us that these little ventilators can be opened
or closed, as desired, according to the conditions encountered in
travel. He said, that flying from the Moon to Venus, about half way on
the journey they encounter very light air. Going through this light air
at a speed better than three million miles per hour, they are able to
draw in air through these ventilators and convert it into conditioning
of the ship for proper breathing purposes. No matter how light the air
is found to be, the movement of the ship and air being drawn through
these ventilators, the ship is so equipped that they can adjust the
air condition within the ship to any pressure suitable for breathing
purposes. They carry no oxygen or anything of any kind with them for
the purpose of breathing. The ship takes care of this through the
ventilators.
We asked them if monoxide gas or something equivalent to it would enter
more than the oxygen they required.
The reply was that the ship was so equipped that it took care of that,
for it had what we would call a filter system in it.
The purpose of the three walls, casing over casing, as we would say,
making the body of the ship, also enabled it to withstand heavier
pressures, if they should encounter them, which might otherwise be
dangerous to the ship, besides withstanding any intense heat, as well
as intense cold.
Here another of the four pilots spoke up, telling us there are stratas
they go through which are terrifically cold, yet don't affect the
interior of the ship, and other stratas which are hot, terrifically
hot, that don't affect the interior of the ship.
Now they are taking us inside the ship. We are really confronted with a
myth. We have never seen so many instruments. We wonder how one man can
ever handle all these instruments while piloting this big ship.
So we ask.
We are told that it takes four pilots to operate this ship. Each man
has a set of instruments that he constantly watches. All four of these
units, which takes four pilots, are so synchronized that in reality
only one pilot operates the ship. Now one of the pilots is starting a
motor in the tail end of the ship. All he did was press a button and
the motor went into action.
Here in the front of the ship is a screen, something like a moving
picture screen, twenty-four inches square. The pilot who started the
motor tells us that the screen is focused to Venus and he is now
smiling, as he tells the chieftain to tell us that since we asked about
the ladies, he is going to show some of them to us now.
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