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Ron Hull was on a ship returning from Antarctica that encountered a terrible storm with 40 foot waves. They assisted another ship that had lost communications equipment due to a rogue wave. Hull watched as the crew shot a satellite phone via rocket to the other ship to help them contact the world. Although concerned for safety, Hull enjoyed the "ride of a lifetime" on the observation deck. Once contact was reestablished, both ships continued on their journeys through two more days of enormous waves before conditions improved. Hull prefers adventurous remote travel and meeting new people to more relaxing vacations.
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“When Lyell looked (admittedly myopically) at the rock outcroppings of the British countryside or at the strata of the Paris basin or at the volcanic islands near Naples, he saw no evidence of cataclysm. In fact, quite the reverse: he thought it unscientific (or, as he put it, “unphilosophical”) to imagine that change in the world had ever occurred for different reasons or at different rates than it did in the present day. According to Lyell, every feature of the landscape was the result of very gradual processes operating over countless millennia—processes like sedimentation, erosion, and vulcanism, which were all still readily observable. For generations of geology students, Lyell’s thesis would be summed up as “The present is the key to the past.”
“As far as extinction was concerned, this, too, according to Lyell, occurred at a very slow pace—so slow that, at any given time, in any given place, it would not be surprising were it to go unnoticed. The fossil evidence, which seemed to suggest that species had at various points died out en masse, was a sign that the record was unreliable. Even the idea that the history of life had a direction to it—first reptiles, then mammals—was mistaken, another faulty inference drawn from inadequate data. All manner of organisms had existed in all eras, and those that had apparently vanished for good could, under the right circumstances, pop up again. Thus “the huge iguanodon might reappear in the woods, and the ichthyosaur in the sea, while the pterodactyle might flit agai ...
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PALIMPSEST by ROGER DEE
Care to sire a brand new race? Then get aboard the Terra IV, only spaceship to escape
demolished Earth, and enter the new-born Venusian sweepstakes.
The first Venusian ship to reach Earth found a single isolated tribe of human beings roving the
bushlands of a large island in the southern hemisphere. The Earthmen were without exception
dark of skin and eye, and their hair, which was jet-black, was as kinky as koola wool. All were
backward to the point of savagery, fleeing in superstitious terror before every attempt at
communication.
Val Conna and his crew—nine tall young men, fair-skinned and lordly and alike enough to have
been brothers—made an exhaustive search that carefully bypassed ruined cities still radioactive
past the safety point, and after ten days abandoned their quest in disappointment.
"I find no resemblance between this remnant of Earth's people and ourselves," announced
Mach Bren, expedition anthropologist, "except a bipedal structure which only bears out our
theory of like species developing on like worlds, and this similarity is sharply negated by
impossible divergence in racial characteristics. Neither people could have changed so greatly
during the four thousand years we know our culture has existed on Venus, and therefore it is
obvious that we did not stem from Earthmen nor they from us."
There was no argument.
"Then the puzzle of our origin is still unsolved," said Val Conna, and gave the order to blast-off.
So they left Earth for home, already planning further expeditions to the outer planets in search
of the world of their birth....
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Somehow Hanlon had wormed his way into their quarters and was waiting when Geddes and
Lowe and Hovic, crew of the Terra IV, returned to base from their final interview with the press.
Hanlon had been drunk for days, and was in pitiable condition. His hand shook violently and the
bloodshot shine of his eyes was like a reflection to the fiery red of his unkempt hair.
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- 1. 6 • WESLEYAN TODAY A quick e-mail to Ron Hull ’52, HD’90 asking for permission to reprint a story (see page 7) about him that appeared in the Lincoln, Neb., Journal Star back in October turned into a real-life lesson in current events. His response was affirmative; then: “I'm on a ship in the Drake Passage, having just left Antarctica on our way back to Ushuaia, Argentina, and then home ... terrible storm yesterday, lots of people fell, bandages, etc. ... we assisted a stricken ship near us because a rogue wave broke the windows out of the bridge and the water ruined their communications equipment ... so we harpooned from ship to ship a satellite phone so they could talk to the world ... we had 40 foot waves! What an adventure ... on a scale of 1-10, I'd give this a 12! I'm back in the office Monday; give me a call and I can talk with you then.” Hull is able to tell one story after another about his life and travels. He was adopted as an infant, having been born in a brothel, delivered by well- known Black Hills madam Dora DuFran, a close friend of Calamity Jane. He counts celebrities among his friends, but isn’t at all pretentious about his associations. He simply likes to meet people all over the world and make new friends. His career has been very successful, as detailed by the adjacent story. Recently, he was honored with the Broadcast Pioneer Award by the Nebraska Broadcasters Association and the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. But about awards he says, “The only real benefit to any award is if it offers incentive to others to excel.” Hull, a life-long adventurer, told of his voyage on the cruise ship National Geographic Explorer with the enthusiasm of one who takes nothing for granted and embraces every nuance of life with gusto. Back on dry land for a few days, Hull told of the storm at sea which came at the end of a 10-day, already extraordinary tour. “The other ship was about 20 miles ahead of us,” he said. “It was hit by a rogue wave over 40 feet high.” In addition to knocking out communication equipment, one engine was down. Hull said the captain of the Explorer announced that they would have to take care of the other ship, the Clelia II. Passengers were encouraged to head to their cabins to avoid some of the inevitable tossing and turning they would experience as the Explorer also faced the tremendous storm. Instead, Hull headed for the observation deck. “I didn’t want to miss anything,” he said. “It was the ride of a lifetime!” He watched as the crew packaged a satellite phone, attached it to a rope and shot it via rocket to the other ship. Hull admitted he was concerned about how close the two large ships were to one another. The package missed twice and was pulled back. On the third try, the phone landed on the deck of the Clelia II. By Lori Essig PASSPORT RON HULLtaking the road less traveled “The passengers on the other ship were jumping up and down,” he said. Once the Clelia II was able to communicate with the outside world again, the ships continued their individual journeys. The passengers on the Explorer endured two more days and nights being tossed by enormous waves. A member of the crew who is a friend of Hull’s said he’d never experienced such a storm. “I just loved it,” Hull said. “I didn’t want anyone to get hurt, but it was great fun!” As is evidenced by his passport, Hull is not one for luxurious, relaxing vacations. He prefers remote adventures, and is happy to tolerate the lack of electricity or a shower for days on end. As he tells his enthusiastic tales, he peppers them with phrases like, “it was my best trip,” and “that was one of the travel highlights of my life.” Though adventure is what draws him in – he says one must take some risks to have good things happen – Hull is also energized by the people he meets. “I like to develop friendships,” he says. “It’s magic.” One of his newest friends, a young scientist on Torgersen Island in Antarctica – for after all, the stormy sea adventure was only the conclusion of his Antarctic voyage – paid him a great compliment. “She said to me, ‘You are living your life boldly.’ ” Indeed. submitted photo