Another Way Of Finishing Us Off

Hang all those scienhsts who misuse thcir talents in inventing theories showing that the world is coming to and end ! Every now and thon, some ïearned idiot discovers that the earth must inevitably collapse or burst, or be burnt or frozen, drowned out or dried-up, or come to a speedy end by soine other unpleasant proces8. Now it is Prof. Purser, who stated to the British Association for the Advancement of Science that the moon, in revolving around the earth and drawing the tide8 behind her, causes the latter to act as a brake on the revolution of the globe. Üe considers that it may be mathematically shown that this aotion is slowly but surely checking the earth's speed of rotation, so that the days and nights are gradually lengthening. In a thousand million years or so, they may becoine éach a month long. And we suppose that, in another thousand million years, the revolution would cease altogetlier, and the world thus become habitable. Cheerful I- 1 i 1 1