MESSAGE WIRELESSED TO MARS AT MIDNIGHT
POST OFFICE REFUSES TO GUARANTEE DELIVERY! By Telegraphs—Press Association. —Copyright. Australian and New Zealand Cable Association. (Received October 28, 7.3? p.m.) LONDON, October 28, llje high-power -wireless station at Rugby transmitted a. message to Mars at midnight, but the officials were careful to point out that they. did not guarantee its reception. The nfesSSge been in no known language, but it was prefixed by three M’s, which the sender says he knows-psychically will be understood on Mars. German astronomers point, out that if signals are received in Britain to-night they will probably be dne to sunspots, which are now disturbing wireless transmission. No one was surprised that the night passed without a reply from Mars.
An official of the Post Office said that if people wished to send such messages there was no reason'why the Post Office should refuse the revenue. The charge would be at long-dis-tance'ship rate, is 6d a word. He saw no reason for rejecting even a message to the Man in the Moon, if it were offered.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12590, 29 October 1926, Page 7
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