Our journey to a strange planet


The best way to introduce these notes from our journey is to report Great Leader Cottaft’s speech to us. On the day before we left Earth he called us all together and said:
“Tomorrow, the Globe will go out. Tomorrow, the science and skill of Earth will win a victory over nature. There were other races on Earth before ours, but they could not control nature so they died as conditions changed. We have become stronger, and we have solved problem after problem. And now we must solve the most difficult problem of all. Earth, our world, is old and nearly dead. The end is near, and we must find a new home and make sure our race survives.
“Tomorrow the Globe will set out to search the heavens in every direction. Each one of you holds the whole history, art, science, and skill of Earth. Use this knowledge to help others. Learn from others, and add to Earth’s knowledge, if you can. If you do not use your knowledge and add to it, there will be no future for our race.
“And if we are the only intelligent life in the universe, then you are responsible not only for our race, but for all intelligent life that may develop.
“Go out into the universe, then. Go and be wise, kind, and truthful. Go in peace. Our prayers go with you.”
After the meeting I looked again through the telescope at the planet to which our Globe is being sent. It is a planet, which is neither too young nor too old. It shines like a blue pearl because so much of it is covered with water. I am glad we are going to the blue planet; the other Globes are being sent to worlds that do not look so inviting.
I am full of hope. I no longer have any fear. I shall go into the Globe tomorrow, and the gas will put me to sleep. When I will wake again, it will be in our shining new world. If I do not wake, something will have gone wrong, but I shall never know.
It is all very simple really – if we trust in God.
This evening I went down to look at the Globes for the last time before we b