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움직임. 문제의 다른 요소들
moves. Other elements of the problem
moves. Other elements of the problem
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밸리, 매사추세츠 공과대학의 핵 물리학자; 랜드 코퍼레이션 연구 회사의 직원들; 성층권과 그 너머의 공간 연구를 전문으로 하는 다양한 물리학자 및 공기역학자; 그리고 케임브리지 필드 스테이션에 소속된 전자 전문가들. 이들은 모두 심리적인 설명보다는 물리적인 설명을 찾고 있었고, 몇 가지 상당히 이상한 이론들이 그들에게 떠올랐다—예를 들어, 지구 밖의 동물이 우리 대기권으로 날아들어올 가능성. (그 놀라운 아이디어를 뒷받침할 데이터는 나오지 않았다.) 비행접시가 적대적인 항공기라는 이론은 신중하게 연구되었고 기각되었다. 한 과학자는 "이 비행접시들의 성능은 현재 과학의 발전뿐만 아니라 현재 공상 과학 작가들의 발전도 능가한다"고 언급했다. 전문가들은 또한 어떤 종류의 빔이나 광선을 타고 공중을 이동할 수 있는 디스크의 개념을 고려하고 기각했다. 그들은 심지어 H. G. 웰스가 그의 소설 "달의 첫 인간"을 위해 고안한 반중력 방패가 작동할지 여부도 추측했다; 그들은 작동하지 않을 것이라고 결정했다. 행성 간 우주선이 우리에게 윙윙거리며 날아오고 있다는 가정 또한 일반인들 사이에서 인기가 있었음에도 불구하고 신뢰를 잃었다. 과학자들은 우주선이 너무 크고 다루기 어려워서 보고된 비행접시처럼 경솔하게 지그재그로 움직일 수 없을 것이라고 생각했다. 게다가, 이들의 의견으로는 우주선은 크기에 관계없이 지구의 밀집된 대기권에 오랫동안 머무를 충분한 연료를 실을 수 없을 것이다. 과학자들은 또한 추정되는 우주인들이 나머지 세계에 대해 놀랍도록 무관심했으며, 거의 만장일치로 미국을 먼저 보고 싶어 하는 것처럼 보였다고 언급했다. 한 과학자는 "디스크 포격이 덮은 작은 영역은 비행 물체가 물리적이든 심리적이든 지구 기원이라는 믿음을 강력히 시사한다"고 보고했다. 천문학자들이 제출한 보고서에서 나는 그들이 하늘에서 사람들이 보고 있던 물체들의 흐름 외에도 우리의 행성 이웃들을 신중하게 고려했음을 알게 되었다. 화성에 생명체가 존재할 가능성에 대한 오래된 질문은 새로운 긴급성과 새로운 결론을 얻었다: 만약 화성에 살아있는 생명체가 있다면, 그들은 우주선을 만들 수 있을까? 천문학자들은
Valley, a nuclear physicist at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology; staff members of the research firm of Rand Corporation; an assortment of physicists and aerodynamicists who specialize in the study of the stratosphere and the space beyond it; and the electronics ex- perts attached to the Cambridge Field Station. These men were all searching for physical rather than psychological explanations, and some fairly strange theories occurred to them—the possibil- ity that extraterrestrial animals were flying into our atmosphere, for example. (No data turned up to support that ar- resting idea.) The theory that the sau- cers were hostile aircraft was carefully studied and rejected. "The perform- ances of these saucers not only surpass the development of present science but the development of present fiction-sci- ence writers," one scientist noted. The specialists also considered and rejected the concept of discs capable of riding the air on beams or rays of some kind. They even speculated on whether the anti- gravity shield that H. G. Wells thought up for his novel "The First Men in the Moon" would work; it wouldn't, they decided. The supposition that interplan- etary craft were whizzing in at us was also discredited, despite its popularity with laymen. Space ships, the scientists thought, would have to be so large and unwieldy that they couldn't possibly zig- zag as frivolously as the reported saucers did. Besides, a space ship, regardless of its size, could not, in the opinion of these men, carry sufficient fuel to remain for any length of time in the earth's dense atmosphere. The scientists noted, too, that the supposed spacemen showed a re- markable lack of interest in the rest of the world, being, it would seem, almost unanimous in their desire to see America first. "The small area covered by the disc barrage points strongly to the belief that the flying objects are of earthly origin, be they physical or psycholog- ical," one of the scientists reported. From the reports turned in by the astronomers, I learned that they, in ad-
Valley, a nuclear physicist at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology; staff members of the research firm of Rand Corporation; an assortment of physicists and aerodynamicists who specialize in the study of the stratosphere and the space beyond it; and the electronics ex- perts attached to the Cambridge Field Station. These men were all searching for physical rather than psychological explanations, and some fairly strange theories occurred to them—the possibil- ity that extraterrestrial animals were flying into our atmosphere, for example. (No data turned up to support that ar- resting idea.) The theory that the sau- cers were hostile aircraft was carefully studied and rejected. "The perform- ances of these saucers not only surpass the development of present science but the development of present fiction-sci- ence writers," one scientist noted. The specialists also considered and rejected the concept of discs capable of riding the air on beams or rays of some kind. They even speculated on whether the anti- gravity shield that H. G. Wells thought up for his novel "The First Men in the Moon" would work; it wouldn't, they decided. The supposition that interplan- etary craft were whizzing in at us was also discredited, despite its popularity with laymen. Space ships, the scientists thought, would have to be so large and unwieldy that they couldn't possibly zig- zag as frivolously as the reported saucers did. Besides, a space ship, regardless of its size, could not, in the opinion of these men, carry sufficient fuel to remain for any length of time in the earth's dense atmosphere. The scientists noted, too, that the supposed spacemen showed a re- markable lack of interest in the rest of the world, being, it would seem, almost unanimous in their desire to see America first. "The small area covered by the disc barrage points strongly to the belief that the flying objects are of earthly origin, be they physical or psycholog- ical," one of the scientists reported. From the reports turned in by the astronomers, I learned that they, in ad-
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사람들이 하늘에서 보고 있던 물체들의 흐름 외에도, 우리의 행성 이웃들을 신중하게 고려했음을 알게 되었다. 화성에 생명체가 존재할 가능성에 대한 오래된 질문은 새로운 긴급성과 새로운 결론을 얻었다: 만약 화성에 살아있는 생명체가 있다면, 그들은 우주선을 만들 수 있을까? 천문학자들은
stream of objects people were seeing in the skies, had also thoughtfully con- sidered our planetary neighbors. The old question of the possibility of life on Mars took on a new urgency, and a new corollary: If there are living creatures on Mars, would they be capable of building space ships? The astronomers
stream of objects people were seeing in the skies, had also thoughtfully con- sidered our planetary neighbors. The old question of the possibility of life on Mars took on a new urgency, and a new corollary: If there are living creatures on Mars, would they be capable of building space ships? The astronomers
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