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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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"You
don't?
You
think
it's
somebody
playing
a
hoax
on
Earth?
You
think
that
wiping
out
of
China
was
just
an
Earth-joke?"
"No,
Sir."
Brent
stood
steady
under
his
superior's
sarcasm.
"But
I
was
chief
teleradio
operator
at
Greenwich
before
being
promoted
to
the
Province
of
America.
And
what
they
don't
know
at
Greenwich
they
don't
know
anywhere."
Brent
spoke
with
that
self-assurance
of
the
born
cockney
that
even
the
centuries
had
failed
to
remove,
though
they
had
removed
the
cockney
accent.
"Well,
Brent?"
"I
was
with
the
chief
electrician
in
the
receiving
station
when
Axelson
was
radioing
last
week.
And
I
noticed
that
the
waves
of
sound
were
under
a
slight
Doppler
effect.
With
the
immense
magnification
necessary
for
transmitting
from
the
Moon,
such
deflection
might
be
construed
as
a
mere
fan-like
extension.
But
there
was
ten
times
the
magnification
one
would
expect
from
the
Moon;
and
I
calculated
that
those
sound-waves
were
shifted
somewhere."
"Then
what's
your
theory,
Brent?"
"Those
sounds
come
from
another
planet.
Somewhere
on
the
Moon
there's
an
intercepting
and
re-transmitting
plant.
Axelson
is
deflecting
his
rays
to
give
the
impression
that
he's
on
the
Moon,
and
to
lure
our
ships
there."
"What
do
you
advise?"
asked
Nat.
"I
don't
know,
Sir."
"Neither
do
I.
Set
your
course
Moonward,
and
tell
Mr.
Benson
to
keep
his
eyes
peeled."
The
Moon
Colony,
discovered
in
1976,
when
Kramer,
of
Baltimore,
first
proved
the
practicability
of
mixing
neon
with
the
inert
new
gas,
leucon,
and
so
conquering
gravitation,
had
proved
to
be
just
what
it
had
been
suspected
of
being--a
desiccated,
airless
desolation.
Nevertheless,
within
the
depths
of
the
craters
a
certain
amount
of
the
Moon's
ancient
atmosphere
still
lingered,
sufficient
to
sustain
life
for
the
queer
troglodytes,
with
enormous
lung-boxes,
who
survived
there,
browsing
like
beasts
upon
the
stunted,
aloe-like
vegetation.
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