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THE END 0 Interview* ^With. -A_g Sciei News am WasiunotoM, B. C, Aug. 15.?The end of the human vace! How and when will it ultimately come about? This startling question I have lately put to eminent men of science. That man has but three miljlon more years to live is the opinion given by Dr. T. .J. J.See, the well-known astronomer of the naval observatory. At the end of that time the sun, which has already expended eieht ninths of it3 energy, will have ex hausted its other ninth and will .have burned out. 'The whole solar system will then be bathed in perpetual night. The earth and its sister planets will continue, however, to travel on their orbits abput the darkened sun. The latter will still be the centre of the solar system. Man might continue to live in dark ness if absence of his daylight supply wore the only effect of the sun's burning out. Within three hundred years, not to mention three million, man will have learned to manufacture artificial daylight. But when the sun's light goes out its heat will go with it. The extermination of all earthly life, auch as bow exists, will, in Dr. See's opinion, result from cold. At the present time, he thinks, the sun is .growing hotter. It probably will become twice as hot as it is now before beginning to cool. But this does not mean that it will give the earth twice as much heat as it doos now, or that in summer thermometers will eventually gc up to 2GG degrees in our zone. With the sun twice as bot the earth might be even cooler than now. After doubling its own heat the sun will begin to lose it. The cooling and darkening of the earth will then be gradual. There will be no sudden catastrophe marking the extermination of mankind and of other forms of life, the astronomer says. The great o?e?ns will slowly freeze over. They will ultimately be come absorbed by the land. Later oar atmosphere will cease to be. vapor, and will lie like snow upon the earth's crust. But why should we worry ? Assume that the last earthly mortal freezes to death in the year 3001900 A. D. What relation will he be to his ances tors of to-day ? Next presume that the average generation wi?! ?wntinue during these thirty thousand centu ries to measure thirty years, as now. Now, take ? slip of paper a mile and a half long and write upon it the word "great" 99,998 times, side by Bide. At the end of that write "grandson." Thus you have the last man's approxi mate relationship to his present an cestors. "But is not a comet likely to hit us at some time before these 3,000,000 j ears shall have passed?" I asked Dr. See. "Suppose it did. It might knock down a skyoraper or two. Nothing worse would happen," replied he. "Are we not liable at some time to collide with another planet?" "We find that the entire solar sys tem is continually hastening in the direction of the constellation of the Lyre. That distant group of planets you can now see almost directly overhead. When we ultimately reach them we shall probably pass through without damage. There is one chance in a million that we will strike one of their number. Of course, if we collide with a body-relatively great in extent it might sweep us entirely away from the sun. But it will take ages and ages before we will ever reach this constellation. We are quietly moving through space, and if any disturbing element appears ; directly in onr path astronomers will give the signal many centuries in advance of our reach ing it." "Lord Kelvin thinks ihat there is only enough osygon in our atmosphere to last mankind some three hundred years. JIow about that?" "Plaut life will continue to convert our carbonic acid gas back into oxy gen, as it has done for ages. The earth's vegetation will not decrease as civilization advaooes. The destruc tion of our forests will never be effected so long as man's intellect im proves. Such vandalism will be pro? bibited by law and some day mankind will see . the neoMsiiy cf ??p?anc?og mighty forests. Moreover, I think that the human race will always cen tre in th? temperate zones. Popula tion will never materially inorcase in the tropics./ The jungles and thick vegctab^ growths of that belt jwill flourish . ro and more, breathing out increased oxygen. Furthermore, the bnrning of coal, which process con Firnes vaat quantities of oxygen, will cease. Solar engines, storing up vast quantities of the sun's heat, will mithin the next century supply us with our electricity. It will no longer F MANKIND. ?tronomers and Other atists. (I Courier. be necessary then to consume extrava gant quantities of oxygeu." "Billions of years. Nothing more definite." Such is the lease given to earthly life by Astrouomer George A. Hill, also of the naval observatory staff. "The earth will ultimately be come like the moon," he continued. "All water on our planet's surface will gradually dry up. We will grow colder and colder as a result of a loss of our moist atmosphere, which acts as a blanket, holding our heat back and preventing its escape into space. Our oceans will ultimately be dry abysses. All animal and vegetable life will, of course, go. Mankind will bo dried up or frozen out. After moisture and vegetation vanish there will be nothing left to keep the earth's crust dark. It will turn white, like the sands of the desert*, as it dries. Snow will cease. There will be no eleotricity, no thunder storms." * "Isn't there a possibility that some other calamity will meanwhile put an end to earthly life?" "There are two catastrophes whioh might occur. The earth might lose its present position in the solar sys tem or it might be converted into a burning ball, glowing with fire. Either effect must result from the earth's or tho sun's collision with some other body in space. A comet hitting us? No, I think that would have ^little effect. A comet hitting the earth would produce about the same relative shock as a feather hitting a base ball. A comet is ? gaseous substance. We went through the tail of one in 1883, when Hawaii's volcano went into eruption. The only effect was a haziness and red glare in the sky. We did not seem to pass through this comet's nucleus?its central mass. To all appearances that apparently solid part was immense. But when we came to weigh it there was nothing to it. It seemed to be of the same material Which composed the tail. There has never been record of a comet snffici >ntly large to knock the earth our. of position. The largest would give; us, red sky, nothing more serious. - "An imrjenee meteor would be more likely to end the earth than would a comet of any size. Suppose our planet were struck by a meteor one half its size. There may be meteors of such magnitude. If there can be small ones there can probably be large ones. The largest whioh have struck the earth within historic times have weighed but a few tons. Such bodies falling upon our surface might kill one or two persons. Nothing more serious would result. In space there have been meteors apparently as large as the great planet Jupiter. But they have been probably less than two hundred miles away and something like ten feet in diameter. But if a large one should knock the earth bard enough to change its present balance the sun's great attraction would proba bly draw our planet in. Then we would all be frizzled up. A meteor one-half the earth's size and weight might accomplish this. Itmight take a year before we ultimately reached the sun, but we would be destroyed before we got half way there. "At 45,000.000 miles, or half the distance from the sun, the earth's temperature would rise possibly to 500 or 600 degrees. No life could with stand such heat, of course. Should the earth stay at this distance a year would be but three months long. Our velocity would be four times as fast as it is now. We would buzz around at the rate of 72 miles a second. Our buildings and, all loose objects would probably be thrown off into space by centrifugal force.' As for ourselves and all other animate objects, they would all have been obliterated by the heat. "I said that the earth might also strike something so hot as to actually Bet it on fire. In such an event it would never burn up entirely. It would go from an incandescent to a gaseous form, and ultimately oool down into a solid again. There is nothing lost in . nature. Fire could ! not extinguish a planet. "Yes, it is true that within millions of years we will Bitb?r ?trike or piss the constellation of the Lyre?some times called the Harp?now overhead at about 10 p. m. That group of stars is an independent solar system from fifty-five to sixty billion miles away. ' It takes a ray Of light eighteen years to travel from their sun to earth. When we look at that sun now we see it as it appeared in 1882. If it should suddenly disappear to night we will continue to sob it until 1918. Whether any of the planets of this constellation would striko the earth before they would hit the sun or other planets of .r.ir solar system would depend upon what side of the suu we happened to be on at the time. If Neptune. Uraous, Saturn, Jupiter or Mars were on the side nearest the approaching constellation they might encounter one of its planets four months before the sun would. If our sun should strike the great sun of the Lyre the shock would probably throw us immediately into their combined mass." Prof. W. J. McGee considered the question from the standpoint of an ethnologist and geologist. "I can see no probability of man's ultimate an nihilation from any cause," said he. "Were it not for the great factor of intellect the last human being on this planet would probably freeze to death. From age to age the quantity of ice on the surface of our globe iucreases. Moreover, the continents are growing and the oceans shrinking. The earth is gradually drying as well as freez ing-' \ "But intellect will not let the en tire earth freeze and thus exterminate the human race. As soon as man be comes thoroughly dissatisfied with the carth's temperature he will change it to suit his needs. A century hence man will live all over the* world. In the polar regions he will warm the temperature around him; in the trop ics he will cool it. "Intellect will extract water from the rocks after they have absorbed all of the earth's moisture. We ean ex tract water from rock now, but the process is both expensive and unne cessary. As the oxygen in the air becomes exhausted intellect will make some more. Do we not manufacture it now? It also can be extracted from rock. We do not thus produce it because the process doesu't pay now." "Has it not been estimated that there will be standing room only on earth in tha year 3148?" Nonsense! Intellect does not let such catastrophes as that occur when it ean prevent it. It may Buffer con siderable shook, but it ultimately pro tects itself." "Can you think of no sudden catas trophe whioh might possibly end the earth?" "The impact of our sun with some other sun or star is more apt to work havoc with earth than any other pos sible event. The mass of the sun wight be thus increased to such a degree.that the earth's orbit would have to* ohange. If the sun came in contact with a body of equal size, and if its force of gravity or attraction for the earth were thereby doubled, the whole solar system wonld probably be broken up. To balance itsolf the earth would have to fly away to a greater distance, or, as is more proba ble, it would tumble into the enlarged sun. We have lately learned that the sun is not stationary, and that it is describing a path toward the constella tion of the Lyre. Now, the other ap parently fixed suns or-stars in the sky are in motion also, but each is going in its own direction and at its own rate of speed. These movements threaten collisions from time to time; such collisions have apparently re sulted within the historic period." That man will entirely disappear from the earth and that evolution will meanwhile have produced, from his stock, a higher race, is the original notion of Dr. Theo. N. Gill, the great biologist of the Smithsonian. "In the eonrse of untold time," said he, "man must develop into a creature as different from what he is now as is the ape ancestor from which he sprung. This evolution will de pend upon future changes in the sur roundings of earthly lifei The sys tem of man's offspring will react to meet them. What these conditions can be I cannot foresee. If the earth gradually dries? % Well, then this de scendant of man, whatever creature he may be, will have adapted himself to much less water than man now re-, quires. Life wovild be possible under such conditions. The desert animals live on very liUle water. Bats and mice of the: desert do without it for lorig intervals. The oame! stores it up for future needs. No, I do not think that this new creature to suc ceed man will have a stomach like that of a camel. If the earth cools? This new being will simply take on more clothing, will cat more oil and will live generally as the Eskimo does to-day. No, I do not think that he would grow hair over his entire body. Neither do I think that he could de velop into an aquatic animal in case water should cover the earth's surface. With the slow encroachment of the water, this new raoe would retreat un til the last bit"of land disappeared. After that, sooner or later, the whole rase wuuid have to give up the ghost. "Suppose there were another glacial epoch, you ask? In* that event a greater part of man's offspring would retreat to the equator. Those left be hind would either die or they also would assume life somewhat after the manner of the present Eskimo. No, there is not the slightest danger that mammoth animals of any kind will ever develop and destroy either the huc?? raoe or that which is to follow it. No animals of lower intelligence could effect such progress. Neither do I believe that disease microbes will ever get the better of posterity. Science will keep them in control. "Yes, I feel positiva that man as we see him to-day will become gradu ally modified into a different creaturo and that remnants of our own race will eventually die out. Yet I think that man will be able to adapt himself to new surroundings and will remain as monarch of the world for ages to come." John Elfketh Watkins, Jr. No Reason for It. "Say, hustle uown to the stock yards right away," said the city editor to the new reporter. "There's a fire down the.e. It may turn into some thing big; but even if it doesn't wo want a good little story on it, anyway." The new reporter shot out of the door, with perspiration starting at every pore. The lire didn't turn out to be a great conflagration, so no more reporter* were sent down to the yards to take care of it. The city editor de pended upon bis new man for the story. Hut for some unaccountable reason the reporter failed to return to thi office und the paper had to go to press without the account of the fire. The next day about noon the now man strolled leisurely into the office entirely unprepared for the thunder storm that broke over his head as soon as the city editor caught sight of him. "Say, what tho dickens is the mat ter with you, t how?" said the editor. "Why didn't you write up that fire that I told you to?" 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