All Change for Venus!
A YEAR or two ago such a body. as the Interplanetary Communication’ Society would have sqynded to listeners like something devised for their amusement by Orson Welles. Told of its existence the other night by Crosby Morrison, in 4ZB’s "Wild Life" session, I found it not only credible but possible and even probable that the aims of such a society should come to fruition in some not-too-distant future. Orson Welles reckoned without atomic energy. So, too, did Mr. Morrison, and yet his data of rockets, propulsion, resistance and velocity all added up to the fact that earth dwellers may yet glimpse the other side of the moon, even if not in Mr. Morrison’s or the listener’s lifetime. It came as somewhat of an anti-climax to be told, then, that the ILC.S. has not the laudable ambition, as yet, of sending suicide squads into outer space, but that the rocket which it aims to fire will be a mere inanimate projectile, and the speculations as to its ultimate destiny but a pleasurable exercise in the higher mathematics.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 325, 14 September 1945, Page 10
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180All Change for Venus! New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 325, 14 September 1945, Page 10
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