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Russell replied with considerable warmth to Proctor's unprovoked attack, and while he does not overtly say so, it is hard to escape the belief that he felt there was something purposeful in the behavior of this cloud and also in the way some other clouds and, for example, dry frogs, have maintained themselves over limited parts of the earth. At best he was thoroughly but honestly puzzled. Proctor's attack, on the other hand, had some of the characteristics of whistling in the dark. He showed a perceptible fear of admitting the reality of Russell's observation and sought to squelch the observer. SOME Scientists are Merely Children. Many of them Working to acquire Prestige. then MORE Prestige, Selfish-Small Yapping Children YET, TOO SOME ARE NOWADAYS MATURE. | sense a tinge of nervousness in this, and certainly believe that Proctor, himself an astronomical student, writer and observer of note, recognized more than physical import in this odd event. His protestations have something of the same tinge as those of the man who suggested that a kangaroo made the "Devil's Hoofprints." | do hope that this Man, either, Whistles in the Dark, OR, bl: he Lid off, Perh then Philosophic progress can be introduced, Peace restored & this our Home-Planet Saved from Prophesied end. However, either could be fatal to human kind but the Latter Not At All if Handled Properly. For generations, perhaps centuries, it was thought that there were one or more planets revolving within the orbit of Mercury. Perturbation of that planet and its orbit led to such a conclusion, particularly before the theory of relativity explained a part of the disturbance. Over a long period of years, astronomers kept seeing object of planetary shape and apparently planetary size crossing the disc of the sun, and these were almost universally assumed to be intra-Mercurial planets. Somehow it never occurred to anyone that similar crossings of the moon, also seen occasionally, could be related, nor that such objects between the earth and moon could undermine the intra-Mercurial planet Hypothesis. After a number of carefully observed crossings of the solar disc were recorded, some of the more able mathematicians calculated tentative orbits for an intra-Mercurial planet. They based this on the assumption that the intervals of time between transits were susceptible to a least-common-denominator which was the probable time of revolution of the suspected planet around the sun. Such calculations led consistently to disappointment and sometimes to heartbreak. No intra-Mercurial planet was ever found, although mathematical astronomers were so confidant of its existence they even named it: "Vulcan." Much time was spent searching for the hypothetical object and many an astronomer hoped to make 137 FOR MORE PRESTIGE. Drujel almost started a Bonfire. UFO's Against the Sun Relativity? Will explain by man???