 What would have happened if Drs. Niemand and Hillyard had not visited Henry Middletown?
This, be it understood, is fiction—nothing but fiction—and not, under any circumstances, to be considered as having any truth whatever to it. These implications are discussed here in an exclusive interview with Dr. Niemand by Philip Latham. It means you can only approximately predict the future course of sunspot activity. I think our biggest advance was the discovery that sunspots themselves are not the direct cause of the disturbances we have been studying on the Earth. They have found savages displaying every symptom of a nervous breakdown among the mountain tribes of the Elgonyi and the Aruntas of Australia. No, Mr. Latham, it's time the stress-and-strain theory was relegated to the junk pile along with demoniac possession and blood letting.
 They would have been missing a key point of connection that allowed them to move their work forward
 They would have traveled to Australia to talk to a specialist  They would have totally given up on their research  They would have been missing a key point of connection that allowed them to move their work forward  They would have talked to a radio astronomer at a different observatory