THE PLANET JUPITER.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4808, 9 February 1925, Page 2

THE PLANET JUPITER.

BE'JTER THAN THE EARTH.

SO SAY "HIGH INTELLIGENCES.”

According to Sir Walter Gibbous, in the “Daily News,” the planet Jupiter is a more desirable place than the earth. He stated that he had been in touch through a medium xyith “high intelligences” on Jupiter, who had made this fact clear to him.

But the “high intelligences” would find it difficult to convince astronomers that Jupiter is a more pleasant place to live on than the earth (writes an astronomical correspondent). It is true Jupiter has a short night, but its day is just as short. As to its family of moons, which Sir Walter puts forward as an additional attraction, most of them would appear to any people on the planet merely as small stars.

Jupiter’s surface is at a very high temperature. If Sir Walter Gibbons wants to enjoy living on Jupiter he Iqid better postpone his migration for at least a million years, when the planet may be cool enough to accommodate him without asbestos clothing; bn' even then he would find moving about a trying job, owing to the increased gravitation on a planet more than 300 times heavier than the earth which would in all probability keep him looted to the spot on which belauded.