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SpaceResearch in New Mexico  \nFor an extravagant sight in June,July,and the first week or twoof August,Earthlings who look skyward during and after dusk willnotice a brilliant object shining in the western sky,far brighterthan any star.This object is not a starof course,but somethingmuch closer to home:a nearby planet that the ancient Greeks,innoting how it shines so beautifully and brilliantly in the sky.named \"Aphrodite,\"after their goddess of love and beauty.Whenthe Romans later coopted the Greek deities they renamed boththis goddess and this planet \"Venus,\"which is the name we knowit by today.  \nSince Venus is almost identical to the Earth in size,it is some-times referred to as Earth's sister world.Its surface is perpetual-ly shrouded by dense clouds—which is one of the reasonsVenus shines so brightly—and for many years humans specu-lated endlessly about the environment on its surface.SinceVenus is closer to the sun than we are,it would seem reasonableto suspect that it is also warmer than Earth,and in many of thescience fiction stories written about Venus early in this century itwas often featured as some sort of tropical paradise with palmtrees,sandy beaches,and so on.In an otherwise forgettable late1950s movie called Queen of Outer Space,Venus is populatedentirely by beautiful women.  \nSpace missions,beginning with both American and Russianprobes in the 1960s,have thrown a lot of cold water on thesefantasies.The main gas in Venus's atmosphere is carbon diox-ide,which acts to produce a very strong greenhouse effect allover the planet.In fact,the surface temperature is close to 1,000degrees Fahrenheit everywhere.Furthermore,Venus's atmos-phere is so heavy that the pressure it exerts at the surface isalmost 100 times greater than what we experience here onEarth.And finally,many of those clouds that cause Venus toshine so brightly are made up of droplets of sulfuric acid,so  \ncontinued on page 2  \n# Beware the Camel'sNose!\n\nby Gerald Larue,Senior Editor,FREE INQUIRY,Professor Emeritus of Biblical History and  \nArcheology,Humanist Laureate,and Chairman of theCommittee for the Scientific Examination of Religion  \nOnce upon a time,an Arab traveler was crossing the desert,rid-ing on the back of his camel.Because of the extreme heat dur-ing the day and the extreme cold during the night,he wiselychose to travel only in the early morning and early evening hours.Just before noon he would pitch his tent,roll up the bottom flapsto let the air circulate,eat a light meal,and then stretch out for anap.The camel would settle down in the hot dry sand and doze.When the day began to become cool,he would fold up his tentand continue his journey until the sun was about to set.Then,once again,he would pitch his tent (now with the flaps down)andlight an oil lamp that would provide just enough heat to keep thetent warm and enough light to permit him to read.  \nOne chilly night as the traveler was reading.he looked up andsaw that his camel had thrust its nose through the flap of the tent.The traveler was indignant.\"You know the rules,\"he shouted.\"Get your nose out of my tent!\"\"But master,\"the camel replied,“it is very cold outside and my nose doesn't take up much roomor use much heat.Please let me warm my nose—just my nose,\"The traveler was a kind man and,he could see that the nosereally did not take up much space or use much heat,so heagreed\"But just your nose,\"he said.  \nA short time later he looked up and saw that now the camel'shead was in the tent.\"Out!\"he shouted,\"Get your head out ofmy tent!\"  \n\"But master,\"the camel respondedwhen my nose is warmand my ears are cold,there is some sort of conflict set up in myhead.Besides,look at how little space my head occupies in yourlarge comfortable tent.\"  \nThe traveler,being a reasonable man,found that the camel's  \nPublisher:Paul KurtzEditor:Jan Loeb EislerCoordinator:Matt CherryContributors:Deidre 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