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When the Saturnian described the magnetic ray, | thought what a wonderful protective device it would be against anyone or anything attempting to attack their ships. Receiving my thought, he replied, ?Yes, it is entirely possible to use these machines against people, or any form whatever, including planets. But we have never done so, nor will we ever use them in that manner, for if we did, we would be no better than your people of Earth. ?Our protection, as has many times been demonstrated when pursued by your Earth planes, is our ability to escape faster than your eyes can perceive. Moreover, we can increase the frequency of the activated area of a ship to the point of producing invisibility. Except for our own precaution, your planes could fly blindly into our ship without seeing it. If we permitted you to come as close as that, when you hit, you would find our craft as solid as though functioning ina lower frequency. The impact would destroy you, yet do us no harm whatsoever. ?From what | have been told,? | said, ?1 gather that occasionally something can go wrong with even your wonderful craft.? 2Yes,? he replied. ?In such cases, if in outer space, we can abandon the ship if it is not salvagable. When this is necessary, the ship is disintegrated and returns to the original elements of space. Every large carrier is equipped with small emergency craft stocked with sufficient supplies and all necessary instruments with which to communicate to other ships in space, or even with a planet. However, if such an accident should take place near some planet, then we would crash just as your own planes do.? Instantly | asked him, ?Then everybody on board is killed?? 2Yes,? he replied, ?but because of our understanding, death in your sense does not appall us. Each of us recognizes himself as the intelligence and not the body. Thus, through rebirth, we receive a new body. ?Also, because of our understanding, we can never deliberately destroy another body through which intelligence is expressing. However, if we should cause death unintentionally, through an accident, then we are not held responsible, for it was not of our own desire.? The instruments continued working as we stood talking. While | watched the screens flashing, | wondered if there were still more and different machines or instruments which | had not yet seen. Replying to this unspoken thought, Zull answered, ?Yes, there are many more in another large room between the disk room and the pilot?s compartment which are in operation only while we are flying interplanetary.? During this visit to the laboratory and disk room, | had been totally unaware of the passing of time. | did not know whether we were standing still in Earth?s atmosphere or moving rapidly through space since, although | had been watching the screens, | was unable to read them as the others were doing. But now the Saturnian pilot said, ?We are not too far from your Moon.? To which remark | thrilled in excitement and wondered if we were going to land there. 2No,? he said, ?not this time. But we want you to see for yourself what you have been surmising about your Moon. The Moon has air, as you can see by our