His weight, therefore, having to be increased by the square of the distance, must be sixteen times greater.

Now 16 times 1/89 being less than 1/5, it is clear that my weight of 150 pounds will be cut down to nearly 30 as soon as we reach the Moon's surface." "And mine ?" asked Ardan.
"Yours will hardly reach 25 pounds, I should think," was the reply.
"Shall my muscular strength diminish in the same proportion ?" was the next question.
"On the contrary, it will be relatively so much the more increased that you can take a stride 15 feet in width as easily as you can now take one of ordinary length." "We shall be all Samsons, then, in the Moon!" cried Ardan.
"Especially," replied M'Nicholl, "if the stature of the Selenites is in proportion to the mass of their globe." "If so, what should be their height ?" "A tall man would hardly be twelve inches in his boots!" "They must be veritable Lilliputians then!" cried Ardan; "and we are all to be Gullivers! The old myth of the Giants realized! Perhaps the Titans that played such famous parts in the prehistoric period of our Earth, were adventurers like ourselves, casually arrived from some great planet!" "Not from such planets as _Mercury_, _Venus_ or _Mars_ anyhow, friend Michael," observed Barbican.

"But the inhabitants of _Jupiter_, _Saturn_, _Uranus,_ or _Neptune_, if they bear the same proportion to their planet that we do ours, must certainly be regular Brobdignagians." "Let us keep severely away from all planets of the latter class then," said Ardan.

"I never liked to play the part of Lilliputian myself.

But how about the Sun, Barbican?
I always had a hankering after the Sun!" "The Sun's volume is about 1-1/3 million times greater than that of the Earth, but his density being only about 1/4, the attraction on his surface is hardly 30 times greater than that of our globe.