| Description | Thanks Dr Lyttleton for the interesting news items. Says that he is glad that O'Keefe has reported, for the first time, that 'a fine powder covers the Moon. It obviously is a most important hypothesis, in view of the fact that it is certainly true'. Asks if Dr Lyttleton read the 'Manchester Guardian Weekly'. Goes on to say that 'It is really quite monstrous how all my scientific colleagues are so completely unwilling to admit that I have been correct since 1955 in all that I have said about the Moon. It was everywhere covered to a considerable depth in fine powder; the powder is cohesive, no doubt as a result of vacuum stiction [sic]; there is erosion from the highlands and deposition in the lowlands; new optical, thermal and radio data undoubtedly were correctly explained by the properties of the powder; and the only two things that have not yet been discovered are the mechanism of transportation over the surface, which I have been saying is largely aided by electrostatic effects, and the subterranean permafrost and ice phenomena, which account for the appearance of rivers and many internally caused deformations. No doubt someone will shortly make the appropriate discovery'. |