INTEREST IN ENGLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19470, 28 October 1926, Page 10

INTEREST IN ENGLAND.

LISTENING FOR MESSAGES. PROS AND CONS DISCUSSED. LONDON. Oct. 19. " If Mars has anything to say to the earth, October 27 will be her chance," says the periodical, Popular Wireless. The.journal states that, using a 14-valve Bnper-heteroayne receiver, its exports will listerf-in when Mars nears the earth at a range of 42,600,000 miles. It is pointed out that certain Morse letters and other mysterious signals have been received from time to time, but cannot be attributed to any earthly station. • Arguments for and against the feasibility of the.signalling have been revived, but pro,-Martians say that Mars, as. the senior, planet, possesses older brains and the onus is on her to open the conversation. Amateurs throughout the .world are invited to listen-in. The idea thijt Martians were probably more highly civilised people than the people of the earth, and that they periodically send us radio signals by the use of extraordinarily- high-power transmitting sets received a strong impetus a few years ago, when Signor Marconi was conducting wireless experiments on board his yacht Electra, in the Mediterranean. It was found that: a mysterious signal consisting cf three dots, which represent the letter S in the Morse code, was being received. Two years ago the planet was in closer proximity to the.earth than-usual-arid the English journal, Popular Wireless, decided to listen-in. A huge wireless receiver, larger even than the one now proposed to be used, was constructed and experts spent days and nights listening for a sign that strange people on a strange planet were attempting to bridge the silence of the universe.. "