《The Jameson Satellite 》作者：- Ronald Neil Jones【EPUB】

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Jameson Satellite by Neil Ronald Jones This eBook is forthe use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the termsof the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Jameson Satellite Author: Neil Ronald Jones Release Date: October 13 2008 EBook 26906 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE JAMESON SATELLITE Produced by Greg Weeks Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE JAMESON SATELLITE By NEIL R. JONES The mammoths of the ancient world have been wonderfully preserved in the ice of Siberia. The cold only a few miles out in space will be far more intense than in the polar regions andits power of preserving the dead body would most probably be correspondingly increased. Whenthe hero-scientist of this story knew he must die he conceived a brilliant idea for thepreservation of his body the result of which even exceeded his expectations. What how andwhy are cleverly told here. PROLOGUE The Rocket Satellite In the depths of space some twenty thousand miles from the earth the body of ProfessorJameson within its rocket container cruised upon an endless journey circling the giganticsphere. The rocket was a satellite of the huge revolving world around which it held to itsorbit. In the year 1958 Professor Jameson had sought for a plan whereby he might preserve hisbody indefinitely after his death. He had worked long and hard upon the subject. Since the time of the Pharaohs the human race had looked for a means by which the dead mightbe preserved against the ravages of time. Great had been the art of the Egyptians in theembalming of their deceased a practice which was later lost to humanity of the ensuingmechanical age never to be rediscovered. But even the embalming of the EgyptiansampmdashsoProfessor Jameson had arguedampmdashwould be futile in the face of millions of years thedissolution of the corpses being just as eventual as immediate cremation following death. The professor had looked for a means by which the body could be preserved perfectly forever.But