UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969)

Spi:ritnal origin and nature of life are explained, not only on OUi" world but also
on the other worlds in our so:ar system. Writings o1 Emanuel Sweden!xwg,
who claimed to have visited the moon and planets of our solar system by asti·al
projection, are freely quoted.
F'irsoff, Valdemar A. An ammonia-based li!e. Discvvery, v. 23, Jan. 1~63: 36-
42.
Development of inorgctJ1ic polymers which bear a rt-semblance to organic com-
pounds but have, wholly or partly, a diiferent chemical i1asis has led to specu-
lations on various alternative life schemes. When liquid ammonia replaces
water as a universal solvent, ammonolysis of the analogue compounds in an
ammono-organic 1;hemistry can replace hydrolysis in the process of digestion.
The same reactiom, of chemical degradation which yield energy by oxidation in
our system would be performed in that of ammonia through the agency of nitro-
gen. Instead of water and carbon dioxide as final products, ammonia and cyano-
gen C2N2 which ia the ammonia analogue of C02 1 would be produced. Equiv:i -
lent organic compounds in a nitrogen-based life system are given.
----- Life beyond the earth. New York, B!lsic Books, Inc .. 1963. 320 p.
Origin of life on earth and elsewhere is discussed, its subsequent evolution and
presf'nt condition, and such for'!::; i:-f it as deviate most from human standards
and thereby promise insight into alien structures that may exist on other worlds.
Rang2 of environm~;:ts are examined within which life as we know it is possible
as well as organic chemistries that would be viable in envit'onments where ter-
restrial life could not exist.
----- Life, mind and galaxies. Edi•1burgh and London, Oliver & 3oyd, 1967. 1!1 p.
Eviuence is presented to saow that life ii: not a freak occurrence in the universe
of stars and nebulae, but an integral part of its general pattern, and will arise
naturally from the inorganic substratum wherevn and whenever conditions be-
come suitable for it, and, that these may be suitable for life of a different chem-
ical order t-ven ·'hough unfit for our type of carbohydrate biology. It is postulat-
ed that no definite boundary can be fixed between the organic and the inorganic
world, whir.h shade into each other by imμerceptible degrees. Nor can the
emergence 0: :nind be pinpointed in biological evolution. There is unity in
nature -- one encompassing reality.
Flammarion, Camille. Stories of infinity: L1~nen--history of a comet--in infinity.
Boston, Roberts Broihers, 1873. 287 p.
Discourse on the possibility of living forms throughout the universe that are un-
known on earth. The universe is postulated as an infinity and earthly life as
but a phase of infinity. Translated from the French by S. R. Crocker.
Friedman, Bruno. Millions of inhabited planets. Flying saucer review, v. 10,
May-June 1964: 7-10.
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