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"The Cambridge Observatory's note says that the transit ought to be accomplished in ninety-seven hours thirteen minutes and twenty seconds; which means to say, that sooner the moon will not be at the point indicated, and later it will have passed it." "True," replied Barbicane.
Other phases of the science of scarcely less importance have been carefully developed, and the work which has been done under Pickering's direction, is second to none in the history of the science. Not satisfied with the Northern hemisphere, a branch has been established in Peru, in which the observatory's methods of research have been extended to the south celestial pole.
Dabney disavows us unless we are successful. Let us let it go at that." Then he said: "The observatory's set to track?" A muffled voice said boredly, by short-wave from the observatory up on the crater's rim: "We're ready. Visual and records, and we've got the timers set to clock the auto-beacon signals as they come in." The voice was not enthusiastic.
The signal-rocket, traveling normally, might have attained a maximum velocity of some two thousand feet per second. It was now moving at a speed which was an appreciably large fraction of the speed of light. Which was starkly impossible. It simply happened to be true. They heard the signal once more. The observatory's multiple-receptor receiver had been stepped up to maximum amplification.
Second only in importance was the discovery and photographic recording of evidence of the value of timber high up on mountains, and especially on the lips of canyons, for holding the snow until late in the season. This latter phase of the Observatory's work has developed into a most novel and valuable contribution to practical forestry and conservation of water, under Dr.
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