BRITAIN FLASHES MESSAGES TO MARS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3491, 29 October 1926, Page 7

BRITAIN FLASHES MESSAGES TO MARS

Sender’s Psychic Certainty of Receipt

POST OFFICE CYNICAL, BUT

TAKES REVENUE

[By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received Thursday, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 28.

The Rugby high power station transmitted a message to Mars at midnight, but officials arc careful to point out that they do not guarantee reception of tho message, described as in no known language, but prefixed by three M's, which the sender of the message says ho knows psychically will bo understood on Mars.

Gorman astronomers point out that if signals are received in Britain tonight, they arc probably duo to sunspots, which are now disturbing wireless transmission.

(Received Thursday, 7.55 p.m.)

LONDON, Oct. 27. No one was surprised that the night passed without a reply from Mars. An official said that if ,people wished to send such messages, there was no reason why the Post Office should refuse the revenue. Tho charge would bo at long distance ship rate, Is Gd per word. Ho saw no reason for rejecting even a message to tho man in the moon if it was offered.

(Received. Friday, 1.25 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 27,

Clouds prevented tho earth receiving signals, it any. nevertheless there was much scanning of the heavens through the giant twenty-eight inch telescope at Greenwich, but Mr. Dyson, the Astromincr Royal, was unable to report success in detecting martians

Optimistic wirelcssors, aided by a fourteen valve super-hetrodyne set, with a wave range of from thirty metres to forty-two thousand metres order gave the Martians a big choice of waves also operating in Fleet Street but tho atmosphere cracklings were the only evidence of etherial trouble. Hopes however were not abandoned till midnight when Mars was actually nearest. The wireless experts opine that it was impossible for waves of tho frequency usually employed, to penetrate the earth’s upper atmosphere.