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Title: The Jameson Satellite

Author: Neil Ronald Jones

Release Date: October 13, 2008 [EBook #26906]

Language: English

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THE JAMESON SATELLITE

By NEIL R. JONES

_The mammoths of the ancient world have been wonderfully preserved
in the ice of Siberia. The cold, only a few miles out in space, will
be far more intense than in the polar regions and its power of
preserving the dead body would most probably be correspondingly
increased. When the hero-scientist of this story knew he must die,
he conceived a brilliant idea for the preservation of his body, the
result of which even exceeded his expectations. What, how, and why
are cleverly told here._

PROLOGUE

_The Rocket Satellite_

In the depths of space, some twenty thousand miles from the earth, the
body of Professor Jameson within its rocket container cruised upon an
endless journey, circling the gigantic sphere. The rocket was a
satellite of the huge, revolving world around which it held to its
orbit. In the year 1958, Professor Jameson had sought for a plan whereby
he might preserve his body indefinitely after his death. He had worked
long and hard upon the subject.

Since the time of the Pharaohs, the human race had looked for a means by
which the dead might be preserved against the ravages of time. Great had
been the art of the Egyptians in the embalming of their deceased, a
practice which was later lost to humanity of the ensuing mechanical age,
never to be rediscovered. But even the embalming of the Egyptians--so
Professor Jameson had argued--would be futile in the face of millions of
years, the dissolution of the corpses being just as eventual as
immediate cremation following death.

The professor had looked for a means by which the body could be
preserved perfectly forever. But eventually he had come to the
conclusion that nothing on earth is unchangea