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auto contact . There fe aa doubt that a great number .. the meteoric falla actually are remains of “natural” abiects in space - Sut not by any means ail of them. Mo doubt sito, some of the falls of ice are. from aircraft de-icing or breaking off by soma other means; the theory about ice from the toilets iz very doubtful, bul even # we give this theory 8 cartain chance, then it still explains only 2 very email part of the total numberof reported falls, Until the Rocket-¢ge's atiempte to explain condit- tone. in the Space ‘around us began, s remarkable attitude prevailed within cerlain scientific. circles ia regard to thet Space. Earth was the navel of the Cosmos, around which and about which everything tumed. The moon and the planste and the eters were hung in the eky for Earth's sake, end between all the bodies outside of Earth's atmosphere was this great empty Space, in which was to be found - absolutely nothing. But the rockets fold another story - they had been out thers. We can say then, that now it is proven that Space i met empty. Among olber things, dust hes been registered. And it has bacome dusty in the spece-captula when the capsule door has #iood open. K is prover also, that cerclain chemical reactions can, in the course of a few seconds, form eolid As all the planets are born kn the aame Cosmos, thee means to say that the same elements er units which make up the “crsation" ara to be found in invisible. form in this so-called empty Space. i “only” needs tha right chemical reaction te take place for the whole lo take solid form and io build up as planets, comets, meteorites or ice - or for that matter, os many other things. H fs thersforg quite plain to see that science can, and must, soon add s.new chapter to thal book about the ‘factual condilions in Space, which it is writing . at this time. in this “beak” it will be stated thal, ‘ wader cartain conditions, sclid matter is formed in empty Space ~ se weil ai much else — matier thai can later fall onto: this planst or others as “shooting- _ stare” or a3 ica from an airplane's toilef. | And it will be enormously. difficult, - yes, almost “ wmpossible, — to differentiate between what are ram- _aing of solid bodies, such os planets, comets or astercids, and what ic prdduced by some other means. One might point to evidence ef bacleria, but ' this just will noi do, because bacteria can be gath- ered up from anywhere in the Cosmos. For example, our planet, just the name as other planets, has, during its journey through space, trailed behind eal! « long tail of dust and bacteria. This dust and these bacteria arg caught up at some time or another by other heavenly bodies, in the same manner that wa collect dust and bacteria from other worlds. - iw faci, we need not go to all the great amount of trouble that we do, to sterilize the apace-ships and probes which ars to be sent up; - our bacteria has long Geen present on cur Gistar planets and many +s ee SNe eee . ‘other planets, just as “their bactecia™ ha a) fong, long while living with ws. Thus. there exists great unexplored aress of res- earch with which science can come to grips. and learn from; and when, finally, these ara explained, the next natural step will be to leam how one can come to live without being “infected” by bacteria. We. are on the way; bit for a while yet we shall ba “infected” by becteria, and believe thal we can: "inlect" our sister planets’ inhabitants. with our bac- teria. For a while yet we ahell only find meteorites tha? originale from planets, comete or asteroids, and ice which falle from the toilst-systams of sirpianes. October 1966. ao * Hers, in ie report just received from the United States, is an important break-through into the area of research mentioned in the afore-going article. With * precision timing, we sow perceive that “— through condensation thie dust eventually forms meteorites which are dente enough to be attracted © a pla- nat -", From: Loa Angeles “Hereld-Examiner", Sunday, January Zind 1967. »L. A. Man finds Life in Space« THERE iS LIFE IN SPACE! Chlorophyll, key compound of life on earth, exists abundantly in outer specs. These findings have been reported to a gathering of experts on Astronomy and Biodynamics meeting at the University of Celiiomia at Gerkeley by Or. Fred Johnson of Electro-Optical Systeme in Pasa- dana. Based on his findings, Gr. Jehason told the Bearke- fay colloquium the possibility that man is hot alone in the universe ig excellent. . The physicist, astronomer and biochemist told the Berkeley sessions, which opened Friday, that after 13 years of research he had been able to identify interstellar dust and had found KR ia composed larg- ely of the solid molecular substance chlorophyll and not ice or graphite as had been previously believed. "There. is no reason to believe that we on this planet ace unique”, Or. Johnson told the Herald- Examiner. “There ts very good evidence, on the other hend, thet there may be similar fons of life throughout the universe”. Or. Johnson reported that although interstellar dust fe very omall with each grain having an average density of 10 to 98. grams per cubic centimeter, he speculates thet through condensation thie duat even- tually forms meteorites which are densa enough to be aftracted to « planet. SIMPLE PLANTS. These meteorites, he taid, then deposit the life substance chlorophyl! and, as on earth, undergo the