SIGNALS TO MARS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IX, Issue 2572, 8 June 1909, Page 2

SIGNALS TO MARS

| l -"- , - l »N'l-li(iO|IK|,|(i(;| !A |,|| I'fuW William Henry Vwhvrw ''"' «M «I».«.)U S brothers wl HX «J;ro ot I ~ agronomical ohsorvalo •'Ulnrvard. is pivpar,,!, |, (l ;Kw( , / "'»""''"''-« i«; «-i'l, Ihe hit,,,,;' L>, 11111,01 ),i,,(w;,rv for the op,.n,|, (11 , ■>r. Piclvenn- (lelr«rap|is „ \ (MV <>rk '•''"•cspondenl), who construed flnu'elcbratod observatory at Kho'slalf -Arizona, believes with PmlVss,,,- Lowell' IhiifiMarsisiiihaliileilhypcoploofhieh »i, el Wiice. 1„ .July. |„, „. IVSi \[.^ will bo 6.OCKI.UWI niikt, nruror tlio i>arih than over before. Professor Pickerings Plan is to establish a. tenet, of mirrors occupying an area of a. quarter of a link which will he attached t„ one ureal axis parallel with thai, of f] m earth, ami will lie run by motors limed l'» liinko complete revolutions everv tweiily-fonr hours.

"The light Mills rcllcolod," he suvs, "would easily ho-discernible liv I lie aid »f loWope* by Ilj(v Miirliiiiin. We should begin ;i series of cutting "IF I In l sun's niv.s for nu mid then throwing Ilium on tlio mirrors again, repeating this ill irregular inlerviils according to (lie (olographic code of dots •iik] diihhot,. Tliii> ought n|. oneii tn attract llio attention of llii! Martians, who will give nn answering signal, (inee siicli a Mgnal ih received il will lie n i'i>iii|iiirii'livi>l.v easy mill lor (<> establish 11 code ttixl IniiiMiiit nioshagcK." _ I'l'ofortsor l'ickei'int' is, rendy to furnish Sllcll il wide, mill say* lie is confident, that if tin's proposed )ilaii could he. adopted, we on eiivlli nlimild lie able ovpiilllally lo oonvoiw with the Martians,