[SKRIVA] English transl, Celsius

From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:30:46 +0100
Approximate English translation of Anders Celsius' "War of the Worlds?" (unkown 
date, but before 1744 when he died):

When astronomy has reached so far that we are sure of the status of the 

inhabitants of the planets; and physics so forward that we find ways to 

travel from Earth to the planets, they none-the-less begin to make war 

in the air and trade and navigate to the planets, and thus they want to 

conquer each other. Later Earth will be considered as a united realm in 

respect to e g the Kingdom of Mars. They will then find out to make 

alliances with each other, e g Mercury, Venus and Tellus, on one side, 

and on the other side Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. But as Jupiter and 

Saturn has conquered so many small kingdoms on their satellites; 

Mercury, Venus and Tellus would the oblige the inhabitants of the Sun to

 be on their side to keep the balance in the Solar system, and instead 

they now have Europa /illegible/. If science would become as advanced 

that we could trade with other planetary systems, e g Sirus, our system 

would be considered as one Kingdom, and then wars start between 

different systems, and so on ad infinitum. But since you cannot travel 

between systems in shorter time than a few hundred years, medicine 

should be improved so that people could become as old as during the time

 of the Patriarchs.

  Who did originally think you could sail the 

seas, as far as that you couldn't see land? Who thought you could start 

to battle on water? Now we have little belief that people in due time 

could sail and battle in the air. It could be possible that flesh and 

skin would become transparent. If one in the future could imagine such 

people and animals, it would become a possibility for a nice novel - 

medicine would then make people long-lived.
--Ahrvid

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