Hey! Do your hear?
Have astronomers any valid reasons for supposing the atmosphere to have fled to the dark side of the Moon ?" "Defer that question till some other time, Ardan," whispered M'Nicholl; "Barbican is just now thinking out something that interests him far more deeply than any empty speculation of astronomers.

If you are near the window, look out through it towards the Moon.

Can you see anything ?" "I can feel the window with my hand; but for all I can see, I might as well be over head and ears in a hogshead of ink." The two friends kept up a desultory conversation, but Barbican did not hear them.

One fact, in particular, troubled him, and he sought in vain to account for it.

Having come so near the Moon--about 30 miles--why had not the Projectile gone all the way?
Had its velocity been very great, the tendency to fall could certainly be counteracted.