{"product_id":"2940014031400","title":"Operation Earthworm","description":"Septimus Spink didn't need to read Jules Verne's \"Journey to\u003cbr\u003e the Center of the Earth.\" He had more amazing ideas of his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Interplanetary Press, Circa 2022--Septimus Spink, the first Earthman to\u003cbr\u003ereach and return from New Mu in a flying saucer, threw a hydroactive\u003cbr\u003ebombshell into the meeting of the leading cosmogonists at the University\u003cbr\u003eof Cincinnatus today. The amazing Spink, uninvited, crashed this august\u003cbr\u003ebody of scientists and laughed at a statement made by Professor Apsox\u003cbr\u003eZalpha as to the origin of Earth and other planets._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_\"That theory is older than the discovery of the antiquated zipper,\"\u003cbr\u003eSpink orated. \"Ha, you big plexidomes still believe the Earth was\u003cbr\u003econdensed from a filament, and was ejected by the sun under the\u003cbr\u003egravitational attraction of a big star passing close to the Earth's\u003cbr\u003esurface. First it was a liquid drop and cooling solidified it after a\u003cbr\u003eperiod of a few million years. You citizens still think it has a liquid\u003cbr\u003ecore. Some of you think it is pretty hot inside like they had atomic\u003cbr\u003efurnaces all fired up. Ha, the exterior ain't so hot either what with\u003cbr\u003etaxes we have to pay after seven wars.\"_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Professor Yzylch Mgogylvy, of the University of Juno, took violent\u003cbr\u003eexception to Septimus Spink's derisive attitude and stoutly defended the\u003cbr\u003etheory of adiabatic expansion. It was at this juncture that Spink\u003cbr\u003epractically disintegrated the meeting._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_\"For the last seventy years,\" he orated, \"all we have thought about was\u003cbr\u003eouter space. All that we have been hepped up about is what is up in the\u003cbr\u003eattic and have forgot the cellar. What proof has any knucklehelmet got\u003cbr\u003ethat nobody lives far under the coal mines and the oil pockets?\u003cbr\u003eSomething lives everywhere! Adam never believed anythin' lived in water\u003cbr\u003euntil he was bit by a crab. Gentlemen, I am announcin' for the benefit\u003cbr\u003eof the press and everybody from here to Mars and Jupiter and back that I\u003cbr\u003eintend to explore inner space! I have already got the project\u003cbr\u003eunderway.\"_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_A near panic ensued as representatives of the press made for the\u003cbr\u003eaudio-viso stellartypes. \"You think volcanoes are caused by heat\u003cbr\u003egenerated far down inside the earth. They are only boils or carbuncles.\u003cbr\u003eAwright, where do earthquakes come from?\" Here Spink laughed once more.\u003cbr\u003e\"They are elastic waves sent out through the body of the Earth, huh?\u003cbr\u003eTheir observed times of transmission give a means of finding their\u003cbr\u003evelocities of propagation at great depths. I read that in a book that\u003cbr\u003eshould be in the Terra-firmament Institute along with the Spirit of St.\u003cbr\u003eLouis.\"_","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079929118960,"sku":"2940014031400","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014031400_p0.jpg?v=1763599387","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014031400","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}