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— Griffin Daily News Monday, Dec. 6,1971
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Life on Mars?
By FRANK MACOMBER
Military-Aerospace Writer
Copley News Service
Man on earth apparently has
an abiding desire to find life in
some form on another planet, if
for no other reason than to
know that somewhere someone
else is just as happy or miser
able as he is on this globe.
The U.S. Mariner 9 space
craft’s journey to Mars and its
orbiting of the red planet to fer
ret out new secrets of the
mysterious ball some 250 mil
lion miles distant from earth
are triggering a new space de
bate.
This time it’s not whether the
United States should continue
with costly space programs.
Instead, the argument develop
ing among Mariner 9 scientists
and others is whether it is
idiotic to think and talk about
people or even living or
ganisms on planets other than
our earth.
Dr. Bruce C. Murray, pro
fessor of planetary science at
the California Institute of Tech
nology, Pasadena, and a mem
ber of the Mariner 9 science
team, kicked off the new argu
ment by observing that the
chance of life existing on Mars
is the figment of man’s imagi
nation.
"The reason some authori
ties have speculated about life
on Mars is that man, as a hu
man species, has been guilty of
wishful thinking collectively
that Mars would be like earth,”
says Dr. Murray. “He had a
very deep-seated desire to find
some other place that may
somehow be habitable.”
What Dr. Murray was saying
in effect is that man would like
to escape from the earth’s dol
drums, at least once in a while,
just as he has moved from the
crowded city to the suburbs.
And now, after a series of
manned Apollo journeys to the
moon, he has found it would
make a poor suburb of earth,
that the golf courses would be
no more than huge sand traps
and that nobody could live
there for long, much less start
up a subdivision development.
If the moon is inhospitable,
Mars is even more so, accord
ing to Dr. Murray. Three
earlier Mariner spacecraft
hurtled by Mars in 1965 and
1969. Photos flashed back to
earth showed the planet is
hostile to earthly life forms,
cold and dry, with no breath
able atmosphere, virtually no
water vapor and no evidence
that Mars ever had seas.
“There never has been any
evidence of life on Mars,” Dr.
Murray insists. “It has just
been a very attractive idea.
You can’t disprove that any
more than you can disprove
there is life on the moon."
Another Mariner 9 scientist,
Dr. Carl Sagan, Cornell Uni
versity astronomer, agrees
that man’s longings may have
gotten the better of his facts in
this business of whether there
is life elsewhere than on earth.
But there he parts company
with Dr. Murray.
“That doesn’t mean that be
cause a possibility is interest
ing it isn’t true,” he contends.
“Just as there clearly have
been excesses in the direction
of conclusions that there is life
on Mars, I think there also have
been excesses in the other di
rection.
“There is, as far as I can tell,
no more reason to conclude
that Mars is lifeless than there
is to conclude that it is in
habited.”
Grand strategy
STAMFORD, England (UPI)
-Animal-lover Rorke Garfield
calls himself “The Fox.” With
a band of friends in fatigue
jackets, a clutch of smoke
bombs and chemical sprays,
they went into action this
weekend to break up a fox
hunt.
“The plan worked perfectly,”
Garfield said, explaining how
the smoke and chemicals
confused the horses and hounds.
“They didn’t get a single fox.”
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window, admiring the view. The
next moment the plane struck an
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her seat.
The jolt dislocated her shoul
der, and in due course she filed
a damage suit against the airline.
“As a common carrier,” she
argued, “the airline was obliged
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However, the court ruled that
the plane’s sudden plunge was an
“act of God,” hence nobody’s
fault. The court said that a bump
less ride is not yet possible under
today’s technology—and even a
common carrier should not be ex
pected to do the impossible.
Nevertheless, it is expected to
do all it can. In another case, a
pilot neglected to turn on the
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sign even though his plane had
already entered a zone of turbu-
lence. This time, when a passen
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like Myrtle’s, he was held entitled
to collect damages from the air
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In a third case, a man was as
sured by a stewardess that there
was “still time” to go to the wash
room, just as the plane was ap
proaching a known patch of
choppy air. Again, injury. And
again, airline liability.
But it is also true that the pas
senger must do his share to mini
mize the risk.
One passenger obediently
hooked up his seat belt when the
warning sign went on. But he left
so much slack in the belt that
there was still plenty of room for
him to bounce. And when the
plane hit turbulence, he did
bounce — hard.
Afterward, the man tried to
collect damages for the injuries
he had sustained. He blamed the
stewardess for not double-check
ing his belt.
But the court threw out his
claim. For having suffered an ac
cident he could easily have avoid
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to blame but himself.
Silver dollars
WASHINGTON (UPI) —ln a
fbur-month transfer operation
that ends today, the treasury
finishes moving 2.9 million rare
silver dollars —some worth up
to S2OO each —to its silver
bullion depository at West
Point, N. Y.
Most of the coins were turned
out at the old Carson City, Nev.
mint between 1878 and 1891.
They were moved as the first
step in offering them for sale to
the public about one year from
now.