NO SILENCE IN SPACE
OVERCROWDED BY WIRELESS
Thirty years ago we spoke of empty space. Today space is filled with sound.
It is, if anything, too full. An aeroplane nearing San Francisco, and continuously receiving instructions about its direction from a chain of wireless stations, came on disaster because the pilot picked up the message from several stations together,
and became confused in interpreting" them.
Space is overcrowded with wireless messages, as many owners of wireless sets realise when they suffer from interference by waves from one station while they are seeking reception from another.
At no hour, no minute of day or night is a wireless station mute. Always some wave of sound is coming in from somewhere. Always, also, waves are going out. Most of them are echoed back from the upper ionised layers of the atmosphere. Some must get out beyond them to wing their way to the planets and to the silent depths of "empty space."
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 17, 3 March 1939, Page 7
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