Life in a Thousand Worlds

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y from our Solar System, over billions of miles of space. I alighted on the burning star nearest to our Earth. This star is called, by our astronomers, Alpha Centaurus, and it is sai

n fire. Their customs and habits are so strange that I am not capable of giving an intelligent description of them. I know that it is inconceivable to us how life

The hotter the fire, the more easily is life sustained. If they were to get away from the heat, this chemical act

are many cold places, or sun spots, on Alpha Centaurus, but these are shunned by the people as death traps.

u to look upon the durable works of architec

sometimes comparatively quiet, and then again, in all madn

he summer sun is pouring down upon us. Breathing is easier and life is quickened when the molten sea boils furiously. These t

eat waves that beat upon them. Such a conception is totally false, for I saw that industry wa

use these terms), and are obtained by reuniting and re-combining spent forces. This explanation is somewhat mystical, but I

ar beyond our philosophy to be conceivable. Alpha Centaurus is so large a sun that although

reat red-hot seas live the monsters of the deep, as well as a motley variety of other species,

akin to astronomy, although some of the greater scholars have ventured the theory that ther

oming when the fires of their world will be blown out and all life become extinct. This they would call, in our

rnment, and the admirable system of educat

theories advanced by our scientists and astronomers fully satisfied my mind. And now I looked and studied in vain. Although the awful burnings had been in progress for thousands of years, I could see n

s the solid crusts break in the contracting of the surface. All this makes terrible havoc

is to get where the chemical action of heat is at a low ebb. Tha

even where it is most intense. It is a common sight to see creatures basking under one of these in

ire creatures know nothing about means of propulsion except by hand power. If you were able to stand on the seething furnace of Alpha Centaurus, you would see these machin

. So I concluded to solve the mystery. I learned that there was a certain element found only in combination. When this element is set loose by chemical process, it will rise at once toward a large planet that revolves around this sun. This planet draws that particul

planet. The discovery enabled a person to rise as high as he wished and then, by swinging the plate in

er or the Sun would have so much fondness! Then with our superior knowledge of

of garments made of the finest texture. The hair-like threads are co

extreme as the manner in which these people hold conv

e on a F

laps. Either the air waves, or substantial emissions, excite the sensitive

w channels of thought and illustrated more emphatically than ever that all things ar

roceeded to visit some of the eighteen w