Old Views

From an old encyclopedia c 1940. In just 25 years space missions made a mockery of such views. Beginning in 1965, a plethora of rocket ships have reached Mars and several other places in our solar system.

There are lessons in this today. Some people dismiss predictions of interstellar travel, or UFOs, claiming the distances involved make them impossible. Numerous UFO cases make a mockery of that. Ample experience shows it is unwise to underestimate the possibilities spawned by technological advances.