So we ask.
We are told that it takes four pilots to operate this ship. Each man has a set of instruments that he constantly watches. All four of these units, which takes four pilots, are so synchronized that in reality only one pilot operates the ship. Now one of the pilots is starting a motor in the tail end of the ship. All he did was press a button and the motor went into action.
Here in the front of the ship is a screen, something like a moving picture screen, twenty-four inches square. The pilot who started the motor tells us that the screen is focused to Venus and he is now smiling, as he tells the chieftain to tell us that since we asked about the ladies, he is going to show some of them to us now.
They picked this scene at random, and here on the screen we see a very beautiful city. The city fades out and just one little section is brought to the front on the screen. We see several children, some men and quite a few ladies in this group, and are they beauties! They are almost angelic in type, from what the screen shows. We are lost for words to describe them, for one couldn't even dream of such a beauty, let alone to see it, as we are now. We believe that there is no artist on Earth, no matter how great, that could paint these Venetian ladies as exquisite as they are. They really are breathtaking. We have seen pictures of an artist's conception of angels which are beautiful, but these women, and the folks in general, are far greater in beauty and expression than any artist has ever been able to paint. And what little we saw of the city before it was caused to disappear, it was something like dream castles in the sky.
Seeing these things really makes us want to travel and travel. Seeing these magnificent planets and the wondrous creations of the Creator, we are beginning to feel that we would like to stay up here and visit these places and never return to Earth, where we came from. Life is so different, so beautiful, harmonious, and joyous, and the individuals so kind, the word refinement doesn't do them justice. It makes us feel that we haven't yet begun to live. And if there is any heaven, it makes us feel this is it. We begin to question ourselves, "why haven't we been born here instead of where we were?"
We are now taken through the ship. This ship carries a crew of thirty, passenger load of seven hundred and a freight load of fifty tons. Our pilot guide tells us this ship is obsolete, that on the next trip he is coming in in a brand new ship of great improvements.
By the way, all the ships we have seen here on the Moon so far, are freighters, and this one is mostly a freighter. Yet outside and in the interior, they are built so fine that they excel any luxury ship that man has ever built on Earth. We wonder what their really passenger ships look like, since these are so beautiful and have so much comfort in them.
This ship is so equipped that seven hundred passengers and the entire crew can actually sleep in it as comfortably as if they were in a luxurious hotel.
There is a very beautiful diner here in which one hundred people, maybe more, can be seated at the same time. That is what we judge. Adjoining the diner is a kitchen fully equipped for handling all the needs of passengers and crew on any length trip they take.
Within this ship is everything that might be thought of by man in the way of safety, communication system and comfort, as well as certain types of recreation. It could easily be called a flying village.