VIEWS OF VARIOUS ASTRONOMERS AND SCIENTISTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXX, Issue LXXX, 29 January 1920, Page 5

VIEWS OF VARIOUS ASTRONOMERS AND SCIENTISTS.

(Received Jan.. 29, 9.5 a.m.) (United Service.) * LONDON, Jan. 28. Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer declares that planetary signals are not impossible. Professor Soddy says that Marconi's communication is obviously of the greatest interest. Mr N. Nobel points out that we have no grounds for believing waves travel through celectial space. Mr E. Maunder (Greenwich Observatory) disbelieve the possibility of planetary communication, and favors the theory of magnetic disturbances in the sun. Professor S. Turner considers that the signals are probably from somewhere in the solar system, though not necessarily from intelligent life, although he thinks it highly probable that life exists in other bodies of the solar system. . Commander Slee, of the naval wireless, does not deny the possibility of a great advance in wireless which opens up a vast field for research. M. Camille Flammarion, interviewed in Paris for the Daily Mail, while agreeing that Marconi interruptions are possibly due to disturbances in the sun, adds that perhaps Mars has been sending out signals for centuries, we not knowing how to reply.