70 Year Magazine Archive

The Gould Theory

by John Brennan

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As everyone must know by now, the flight of the Apollos has brought unforeseen consequences to the people of the United States. The moon flights were thought to be a bit expensive by some because of the price tag of $24 billion, but it now appears that the $24 billion was a minuscule down-payment.

Chester Gould, one of the greatest scientific minds of this century, actually prophesied in part what every other scientist thought to be unthinkable. In his monumental, if rather strangely titled volume for a work of scientific import, The Adventures of Dick Tracy, Gould plumped foursquare for the theory that the moon must be inhabited. Gould theorized that moon people, remarkably similar to Earth people except for the antennae that thrust forth from their foreheads, lived in moon canyons where a. civilization of an involved and complex nature had been developing over the countless centuries. Gould indicated, although probably intuitively, that the deep canyons were warmed by the central fires of the moon’s interior and that a constant water supply was maintained by vapors congealing into ice when they rose to the moon’s frigid surface only to return in the form of rain when the moon’s face was warmed by the rays of the sun. Under these salubrious conditions the moon civilization thrived and developed.

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