Man Moves into the Universe

Abstract

Through the evolutionary processes of a billion years man has developed as a prisoner of the planet Earth. His physical condition has been determined by the parameters of a planet with a mass of 6 × 10²⁴ kilograms, and a radius of 6378 kilometers. He has evolved with the consequent force of gravity—giving a surface acceleration of 982 cm/sec²—as a naturally occurring determinant of his movements. On Venus these physical conditions are similar, with a surface acceleration of 850 cm/sec². Yet man evolved on Earth but not on Venus. For reasons which we do not yet understand the atmosphere of these two planets developed in totally different directions, on Earth in a manner which enabled life to replicate and support itself, but on Venus in a way which is quite hostile to any forms of life known to us.