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There were waves of mountainous proportions, swells like oat- meal boiling in a vast cauldron. The beauty of the scene lay in the merging of brilliant hues, when orange heat cooled to red, then soon heated to orange again. These two were the only colors on the screen, merging into and out of the seething madness that was this red ocean, Jupiter’s red “spot”. No ship of earth could have withstood this madness, this inferno, for an instant. Adam had suspected its nature, but the actual sight of it was a little too much for him and he waited tensely for Antares to say more. However, his suspense was broken by the sudden appearance of tiny moving objects, three of them, flying over this forbidden, deadly sea like insects over a living volcano. The objects were brought into full-sized perspective, where they could be clearly seen as three spherical craft with men visible aboard them. They hovered over the vastness of liquid spouts and turbulence, liquid so dense aluminum would float in it, Adam thought inadvertently. Antares, breaking the silence, narrated the facts. “Those are three of our ships. They are spherical for the purpose of strength, not only in the vacuum of space but for the pressures of submergence in any ocean, or in any medium.” Even as Antares spoke, the three craft plunged straight into the blistering metal ocean. It seemed suicidal, and Adam felt a wave of deep compassion sweep over him for those poor souls in the three little ships. But the voice of Antares reassured him. “That boiling sea is more than ten thousand miles deep, Adam. m4 1 ade W Those ships you saw plunging beneath its surface actually went to its full depth. Can you imagine diving into a cauldron of molten metals more than ten thousand diving into a ten thousand imagine re than went to you cauldron of metals ten more miles deep? To us this is what you would call routine. The floor of that blistering ocean,” he continued, “goes to floor blistering he floor of that blistering ocean,” he continued, “goes to the very center, or the core of Jupiter. In fact, the whole ocean is born because of the seed-cell area, which is only a few hundred yards in spherical diameter in the very center of old Jupiter. Your earth has the same hot cell in its center, born of the great to 118 SON OF THE SUN