HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-02-06, Page 7You're Already; On
A Rocket Ship!
You may not have realized it,
but you're, living on a spare ship.
According to Dr: Jariles G.
Gaume of the Martin Co'npany,
"the earth itself (is) a giant
space ship hurtling t'`trough
space with a velocity of 18.0
miles per second."
This is why man-made space
ships that are designed for
lengthy trips among the -stars
will have to simulate many of
the physical characteristics and
natural processesof the earth.
Dr. Gaume told a space medi-
cine symposium at the recent
annual meeting of the American
Association for the: Advancement
of Science that because our
planet is such a good space ship
Its principal features point to
those which must also be in -
eluded in man-made ships.
"On this space ship (sarth),"
he explained, "we live in a
closed ecological system sealed
eff by the earth's gravity from
an unfriendly environment of
apace.
';Dy this force of gravity, oxy-
gen, water and other physically
unattached matter essential to
life is retined at the surface
and is available for. our use. The
atmosphere is also cur protector,
shielding us from such danger-
ous space phenomena as meteor-
ites, solar and cosmic radition,
which : are destroyed or attenu-
ated in passage through the at-
mosphere.
"In his attempts at flight into
hostile space, man must provide
himself with all the essentials of
life found on earth."
Dr. Gaume drew a distingtion
between short-term sgace flights
and those of long duration. No
one is sure just where this dis-
tinction should be drawn. How-
ever, as a rough guess, Dr.
Gaume said he would draw it
et a flight time of less than two
or three Weeks.
In short-term flights, some of
earth's vital functions can be
dispensed with. But all of then
will beessential to flights longer
than the two - to - three - week
Emit.
For example, Dr. (}aurae said
that for short - tel m flights
enough oxygen, chemical carbon
dioxide absorbers, and food and
water can be stored On board to
last out the flight, writes Robert
C. Cower in The Christian Sci-
ence Monitor.
But forlong-term flights, he
said that "the weight of such
stored materials is likely to be
$•rohibitive, at least for present
and near -future propulsive sys-
tems."
Therefore ,he added, men will
have to design "a closed system
in which matter will be recycled
over and over, thereby eliminat-
ing the necessity of carrying
large quantities of stored es-
sentials and accumulating large
quantities of waste."
This business of figuratively
reproducing the earth in minia-
ture in a space ship is exceeding-
ly complex. Engineers are no-
where near to having the neces-
sary' know-how to do it.
On the other hand, it seemed
to be t1'ie concensus among space
research experts here that prob-
lems of reasonably short-term
space flight are clqse to being
licked. And even if men are not
yet ready for the two -to -three-
week flights, trips beyond the
atmosphere are considered al-
ready feasible for brief periods.
In this connection, it was
pointed out that Air Force Maj.
David Simons, who rode a bal-
loon to 100,000 feet, spent hours
at an altitude where for many
tiurposes, he was virtually living
In space.
It was also the consensus of
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Too Much Time
On Their . Hands
Ministrations and portents be-
ing favorable, we called the other
evening on Red and Alice Cous-
ins, who had asked us to, and
we found out Red is a clock fan-
cier. I never kipew a clock fan-
cier before, and the evening
proved interesting, if not wholly
enjoyable. That is to say, eight
o'clock was all right, and nine
o'clock wasn't too bad, but we
left before ten. Ten o'clock
would be too much, I know:
Back in the cultural history of
Boston there was, once, a grand
festival of something or other
in which red-shirted firemen
whanged. sledges on anvils for a
stirring presentation of the An-
vil Chorus, and it must have
been a lot like an evening at the
Cousins's.
Somehow, without ever bring-
ing it to the fore, I had a sub-
jugated notion that I liked clocks.
I didn't do anything about it the
way Red has, but once we had a
steeple clock with a pleasant
manifestation of the hours, and
when it collapsed I didn't throw
it away. I set it on a beam in the
barn thinking sometime I might
give it a look or two and put it
back in service,
Truth is, I have often thought
it might be fun to have a clock
on the kitchen shelf that runs
backwards, and chimes 22 at the
half hour, and things like that,
and I had a half -idea I might
somehow work out such a phe-
nomenon. However, the clock is
still on the beam, and we have
modernized our household with
an electric timepiece.
We still have a galvanized
dawn -buster in the bedroom to
start us a -jumping on the new
day. The only other clock we em-
ploy is a kitchen gadget which
doesn't strike the hours, but does
give off a chime if anybody ,sal-
utes the back door. It was sup-
posed 'to do the same for the
front door, but a wire broke and
I never fixed it. In short, we
don't pay too much attention to
the time or the front door, and
this one clock takes care of us.
Mr. Cousins, having greeted us
and undertaken a narrative, had
just said, "And there was this
bobcat bearing down on poor
Aunt Millicent, with her berry
the experts here that there is
no longer any question of men
traveling among the planets. It
is only, a question of when they
will be ready to do it. Trips
around the moon . could start
within the next 20 to 30 years,
they said.
Meanwhile, as a few hand-
picked experts prepare to go ad-
venturing with the stars, the rest
of us can join in the spirit of
the space age by remembering
that our old familiar planet is
already the best possible space
ship that could be built.
RIG AS A TRUCK—This hugealuminum :body 'with a capacity
4 371/2 cubic yards is the largest ever built. for a dump truck.
The truck Is 30 feet, 3 inches long, 12 feet, ":inches wide 11
feet, 11 inches high and weighs 54,000 pounds. It will be used
In bauxite mining operations in- the Dominican Republic. The
truck, for offf-highwayuse, is powered by a 335 -horsepower
turbocharged diesel engine, carrying a load of 67,00 pounds.
pail stuck on over her head,
and ..."
At this point it was eight
o'clock. • There commenced a
dainty jingling from a blue Dres-
den china contrivance on the
high -boy followed by a bellow
or alarm from a Seth Thomas in
the front hall. Then all the others
joined in, some fast, some slow-
er, all unlike, and each adjusted
to a different degree of notoriety.
Mr. Cousins, being at home,
continued to, discourse, but what-
ever he said was now unheard.
My wife, after runningtwice
around the library table, sat
down again and looked embar-
rassed, and I found I had shoved
one of my decorous and dainty
feet between the rungs of a kind
of glass -topped stoop table in
- such a way that the table could
not remove itself and go about
its business.
Suddenly the . tumult was at
an' end; the last piercing echo
faded in the far confines of the
kitchen; a gentle delicacy of
friendly quiet fell over the do-
micile; and once again !2r
Cousins's superbly modulated
voice was heard, saying, ". , . but
Aunt Millicent was never known
to pick another blueberry from.,
that time on."
This consequence raised in my
mind a number of questions in
social ethics. First, would it be
all right if I removed one shoe
inthis polite and hospitable par-
• for in order to extricate myself,
and if so, should I inquire, first,
of my hostess if I might do so?
"May I dip my bread in the
bean juice?" is the sort of thing
I mean. I never knew .a hostess
to say no to this reasonable re-
quest, however much it violates
the true rules of gentility, but
this might not be just the same.
Then there was the matter of
the oddity itself — was it proper
to turn to Mr. Cousins at this
timeand ask about the state of
his mental equipment, delving
into the judgement, perspicacity,
and relative humidity of .any
body who would keep such a
conglomeration of confusion?
How does one become a clock,
fancier for real? Why does one?
And how long does it take to
learn to live with the things?
Frankly, the erudition and 'abil-
ity of Mr. Cousins is otherwise
revelation of this clock mena-
gerie insinuates certain doubts
which tease the guest to wild
thoughts of inquiry.
Most of all, however, I re-
flected on the story he had just
told" Never before have Mr.
Cousins's boyhood recollections,
as related first to last, been in-
terrupted in my presence, and
I . know that all of them have
been gems of down -East hilarity,
redolent with flavor and salty,
as they say. His gift of narrative
- is extreme, and one of the fine
- things about knowing him is the
chance to hear him
Yet here was what may -well.
have been one of his finest ora-
tions obscured totally by the
hour of eight, and in due process
of events it might chance that
there would never be another oc-
casion to hear this same story
through. Should I ask him to re-
peat it, timing himself so the
next storm of 'chimes and bongs
wouldn't offend?
At nine o'clock we were ready
for the din, and I had handled
the approach so the ball' was On
my side of the net when it start-
ed. I finished a sentence just as
the first _bleat. of the china clock
titillated the congenial scene, and
.then I closed my eyes and kept
silent throughout. When quiet
was again ,restored Mr. Cousins
said, "I see you have noticed
my clocks."
He then spoke about them for
a time, telling us where each had
originated and why he cherished
it, , and along about a quarter to
•ten I was able to invent several
good and sufficient reasons why
the visite should be terminated.
As we drove away, with Mr, and.
Mrs. Cousins waving from their
door, the resounding background
told us we were on time. By
John Gould in The Christian
Science Monitor.
Drive With Care
Ship's Doctor
Never At Sea
Dr. Guido Guide, of Rome,
treats more patientsin as year
than a score of ordinary ,doctors
put together, yet he has never
seen one of them and he re-
ceives no fees for the treatment
he prescribes.
The reason is that this sixty -
year -old Italian physician is a
ship's doctor who never goes to
sea. He treats his many sailor
patients entirely by sho3't-wave
radio, and he giyes his services
voluntarily.
Dr.' Guida started his free
medical service for sailors back
in 1935 when he heard that the
crews of many, ships at sea lack-
ed medical 'aid. The authorities
approved of his idea, and for
the short-wave sending and re-
ceiving set fitted up in his sur-
gery he was allotted the call
sign MEDRAD (Medical Radio)
and CIRM (International Centre
Radio Doctor).
So, to -day, if a. sailor in a
merchantman at sea is stricken
with an illness, the treatment of
whichis beyond the captain's
resources, he can call up MED -
RAD CIRM for expert advice.
If reception in Rome is poor
other ships will relay his mes-
sage. The captain can then de-
scribe the patient's symptoms
so the doctor can make a diag-
nosis and prescribe treatment.
By keeping in radio touch with
the ship the doctor can follow
the course of the ailment.
Britain, too, has a free radio
medical service for ships at sea.
Operated by the Post' Office
Radio Stations • at Land's End
and Portishead, this free "med-
ico service" enables ships' nap -
tains ,to
captains,to seek expert medical ad-
vice - and assistance at any time
of the day or night.
Early one morning the duty
operator. at Portishead Radio
Station received an emergency
call from a British freighter
ploughing through stormy seas
in the Atlantic. A sixteen -year-
old deck boy had been suddenly
taken ill, and the captain radi-
oed the lad's symptoms and
asked for advice.
The operator immediately got
in touch with a local hospital
and within an hour signalled
the diagnosis of appendicitis re-
quiring prompt surgery. No
other ship in the freighter's vi-
cinity possessed a doctor or sur-
gical facilities, so the ship head-
ed •for an Irish port at full
speed. Arrangements were made
for . a helicopter to meet her at
sea, if necessary.
But she made harbour, landed
the patient by launch and he
was successfully operated on.
The whole drama, in which the
radio . medico service played a
vital part in saving the boy's
life, lasted for three and a half
days.
The Last Score
Some years ago, a well-heeled
Wall Streeter noted that leading
newspapers, on the first Sunday
of the football season, carried
a staggering array of scores, a
majority of the games involving
colleges he never had heard
about. He decided to phone the
sports desk a few,statisties of his
own. The following Sunday,
papers all over thecountry car-
ried an account of the victory
of Plainfield Teachers of New
Jersey over Scott, with a clever
Chinese back named Chung re-
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Plainfield Teachers, Scott and
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figments of the Wall Streeter's
imagination, which grew'more
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