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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1928.

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(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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14-Anger (pl.)

16 Touch

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gods

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titles

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(Tre solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

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THE CHINA MAIL,

RADIO TOPICS

CALL TO MARS

POST OFFICE ACCEPT MESSAGE

WAITING A REPLY

The Post Office is co-operating in an attempt to communicate with Mars next week, says the "Daily Mail" to band.

Mars, Dr. Robinson sent a message to Mars via the Rugby wireless, and certain mysterious "M." which were subsequently received on a apecial privato, receiving set were said by him to be the reply from Mars.

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times shorter than those used in wireless. The transmitter consists of electrons in rapid vibration, and the receiver is an organic structure containing a substance called the visual purple which is decomposed by the waves but continually re- There was natural scepticism at newed. In other words, we trans- the time as to the genuineness of mit light from a flame or a glow.. this reply, and hence a more ex ing body, and receive it on the acting test is this time proposed. retina of our eye. Is this the best Dr. Robinson claims that his means of communicating across message will be repeated back with intor-planetary space, or shail wa a method more closely re- tho proposed variations immediate- use ly it is received at the Mars station,sembling the methods commonly and that, since wireless Waves accepted in wireless talography?

An argument in favour of light This experiment is being under- would take about four minutes to taken at the request of Dr. Mans-travel between the Earth and Mars is that most sentient beings have. field Robinson, ex-town clerk of and vice versa the reply will be eyes, whereas only an insignificant Shoreditch, and is being handled by received eight minutes after des proportion are in possession of

patch. the Post Office as an ordinary com mercial transaction. The condi- tions of the test are as follow:

A message will be sent from the Rugby wireless station and Post Office engineers will laten on a special receiving set at St. Albans

for a reply..

At 2.15 and again at 2.30 On Wednesday morning next Rugby high-power wireless station wli broadcast on an 18,500-metre wave length a message to Mars, handed in previously at the Central Radio Offee at the Ganerai Post Office in London by Dr. Robinson..

Then, from 2.15 to 2.45 on the same morning, Post Office engineers will listen on a 30,000-metre wave length receiving set, at the St. Albans station for a reply, and will provide Dr. Robinson with a record of all calls received on this wave length during that period.

The outward message will be ac- cepted athe usual rate of 1s. 6d. ļa word, and as the projected mess- nge is one of five words, Dr. Robin- son will be able to say, if success. ful, that he has sent a message to Mars for 7s. 6d.

Dr. Robinson, who Is a well- known psychic investigator, claims to be in frequent telepathic com- munication with a woman inhabit ant of Mara, and through her to

have arranged the conditions of this experiment.

He does not assume that words as we know them will be understood in Mars, but that the Martians understand the science of wireless communication, and will repeat back the dot-dash symbols of the message.

He goes further and proposes to arrange that the Martian operator shall repent the message back with slight alterations. These alter ations are to be put in a sealed envelope and kept a secret until ufter the receipt of the anticipated } return message.

Mars, he believes, is using the 30,000-metre length because of its superiority for this purpose, and it is for this reason that the official listeners at St. Albans are to use a receiver tuned for this special reception.

TO THE PLANETS

·RADIO AND THE WORLD'S FUTURE

[Ry Dr. E. E. Fournier d'Alba,

wireless receivors, and this only recently. Eyes were evolved on earth some 20 million years ago, and if any life exists on Mars, Yenus, or some other planet, we may be sure that it is endowed with a sense organ akin to the eye of terrestrial beinga, But even

the distinguished scientist ando, we can hardly suppose that a Martian, eye would be capable of radio inventor.]

discerning any detall on the earth's surface unless provided with a powerful telescope. And if we suppose the Martian to possess a telescope, why not a wireless re- ceiver?

According to the most recent calculations of astronomers, the earth will be habitable for several million years to come. The human race must therefore be prepared for a long tenure of this planet, and

Many well-known writers have for its defenco against a possible assumed that Mars, being older external enemy. For there is no than the earth, is in a much more knowing what may happen in a advanced stage of evolution. If million years. Mankind, aided by this assumption is right it is not science, may still be the undisputed unreasonable to suppose that the master of the earth, but other forms beings dominating Mars are ac- of life may appear or develop on quainted with telegraphy, and are other planets, and may eventually quite capable of signalling to the challenge man's supremacy.

At-earth. But here a difficulty arises. tack being the best kind of defence, If their civilisation is older than man will probably be the first tours, they may have acquired the transcend the limits of his home gift of wireless half a million years and bring the neighbouring planets ago, when Man dwelt in caves and within his sphere of influence. only had the roughest stone im- plements. We can imagine the Martians signalling at intervals for a thousand years, but, having re- ceived no response whatever from It the earth, they may have conclud- is the first step in the conquest of ed that it is uninhabited, and inter-stellar space. When oc- censed wasting electricity on casion arises, the first, men will set empty space. forth to carry the banner of humanity into the barren spaces outside the atmosphore. Their destination will be the planet from which the first evidence of in- telligence reaches the earth. How that message,will be communicated we do not know nor have we any indication as to when it will reach

The recent use of rockets to pro- pel cars is portentous, for the rocket is the only device known which will propel a vehicle through space where there is no air.

Us,

| Alexander von Humboldt a hun- dred years ago, proposed, 4 scheme

Communication by Light-Signals

In these days of radio-telephony we often lose sight of the fact that communication by light-signals is in Two years ago, when the Earth itself a form of wireless telegraphy, was also in special proximity to Only it uses waves about a million

Wireless Communication Difficulties There is another difficulty in the way of wireless communication. with the planets. This is the presence round the earth of a con- duating layer of air, usually called the Heaviside layer, Its height varies from 60 to 100 miles above the earth's surface. It is denser in the day time than it is at night, owing to the action of the sun in ionising our atmosphere. It is this Heaviside layer which makes it possible to send, wireless mess- ages round the curved surface of] the earth by preventing the waves from spreading out and losing themselves in influite space. :-

The same conducting layer which is an advantage in ordinary wire- legs is a very serious obstacle to inter-planetary radio communica-

may

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of

Thus, if the message is, "Love to Mars from Earth," Mars might re-į ply "Love to Earth from, Mars,"" for sending some "proof of our Next week has been chosen for culture to our neighbours in space. the experiment because Mars will His plan was to draw on some open then be at its nearest point to the space a right-angled triangle, with earth, and will, moreover, then be three squares, each based upon a high in the heavens-a condition side of the triangle. This is the which Dr. Robinson regards as diagram, illustrating the famous important for the experiment for theorem of Pythagoras, according this reason: that wireless rays will to which the largest aquare ac then have a more direct and shorter cupies as much space as the two passage through the heavyside smaller ones put together. The tion. It is only the longest waves layer, well-known to wireless ex-triangle was to be drawn on the which can penetrate it, and it may perts, which surrounds the earth pampas of Brazil, the lines being be found necessary to use waves and tends to reflect wireless waves. about a mile in thickness, and considerably beyond the present Owing to the necessity for over- traced by burning the grass, Such range of wavelengths. Some | coralug this - Dr. Robinson would a figure would convey to a Martian way

discovered prefer the despatch of his message armed with a telescope the first setting the whole earth into on a 30,000-metre wave length, but positive proof of civilisation on our electrical oscillation in such A this not being available he is using earth. The Martians, if sufl-manner that the electrical the highest length in this country clently advanced, might reply by waves generated are projected into -the Rugby 18,500-metre.

drawing a similar geometrical outer space. The alternative figure, and for better or worse, would be to have a transmitter communication would then be above atmosphere, but it is diff) established for ever.

cult to imagine any practical means' of carrying this out.

Devising a Code The next step will be to devise a code. Signals would naturally be given in a definite series of numbers. The transmission of several series such as 1, 2, 3, and 2, 4, 6, would at once convey intelli- gence. If any response were re- ceived the next step would be to transmit music, which we may take to have universal significance: It would be much more difficult to establish communication by langu- ¦age, unless, Indeed, we could trans- mit some kind of image, The difficulty in interpreting hierogly- phics and Hittite inscriptions may, furnish some ides of the formidable: problems which oven the most civilised language of Europe,would ofer to a Martian interpreter whose conditions of life may be entirely different from our own. But if ever an intelligible means of com- munication is devised we can daally imagine the intense Interest. It would excite in every part of the world. Strangers interested in each other and maintaining a long correspondence often end by visit ing each other, Let us hope that the first interview will be satis factory, and that, we may not live to regret the days when we const dered ourselves the only Inhabib- ants of the Universe.

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