Herbert George Wells
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accelerated its cooling
Я чувствую себя так уютно, как на пороховой бочке.
Part 6 He became quite sure, by a sort of accumulation of reflection, as the day wore on. He found his youngest daughter intrusive in his thoughts all through the morning, and still more so in the afternoon. He saw her young
earth the force of gravity is three times what it is on the surface of Mars. A Martian, therefore, would weigh three times more than on Mars, albeit his muscular strength would be the same. His own body would be a cope of lead to him. That, indeed, was the general opinion. Both The Times and the Daily Telegraph, for instance, insisted on it the next morning, and both overlooked, just as I did, two obvious modifying influences. The atmosphere of the earth, we now know, contains far more oxygen or far less argon (whichever way one likes to put it) than does Mars. The invigorating influences of this excess of oxygen upon the Martians indisputably did much to counterbalance the increased weight of their bodies. And, in the second place, we all overlooked the fact that such mechanical intelligence as the Martian possessed was quite able to dispense with muscular exertion at a pinch.
У каждого из нас есть своя машина времени, воспоминания что уносят нас в прошлое и мечты которые переносят нас в будущее.
Допускать зло - значит нести за него ответственность.
«В душе всякого человека, даже самого просвещенного, гнездятся какие-то неуловимые остатки суеверия.»
