Its atmosphere is still
very dense, and owing to the very rapid evaporation of water due
to the extreme heat a constant cloud canopy covers its surface,
which only dissipates occasionally in a slight degree, at which
times only the sun penetrates to the surface of the globe. By
reason of the constant thick cloud canopy over the surface of
Jupiter the planet is enveloped in deep gloom and darkness. As
radiation is arrested to a marked degree by the clouds and
atmosphere the temperature is very humid as well as hot. In this
steam environment grow forests of fern and fungus-like trees and
rank vegetal growths which will in the course of time be
preserved as coal for the races destined to inhabit this planet.
This vegetal growth is a flora that knows not bloom or seed, but
is propagated by root and spores, a flora most primitive in type,
but which will in time evolve through the law of mutation and
adaptation into a diversified and useful vegetal kingdom for the
races yet to come on the planet.
Owing to the tremendous gravitational pull on Jupiter present
organisms are, and future ones will be evolved along specially
modified lines, in order that they may encompass the least
possible volume, just as the denizens of the extreme depths of
your oceans have evolved.
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