| Show i- i iI I Other Points of View I 5 CELESTIAL T. T MOVIES Mr Ir Marconis Marconi's taUt talk of or wireless dispatches to tho the stars has hRs Ket et thorn thom otto oft Now v comes Nicola Tesla Teal with a n. re reminder reminder re- re minder that nearly twenty years ears ago ho received faint signals whoso measured regularity was wai such that tho they could not have o been accidental I sl signaled sig sig- back with my powerful radio tran transmitter he ho continues con con- and I am certain that I t produced disturbances on Mars f rs This seems an unkindly act perhaps Mars larA like Uko Earth has disturbances enough of or Its own without getting Setting others other Inflicted on It from external spacer space Mr Ir Tesla has small confidence In the tho Idoa Idea of ot getting Into communication b by wa way of mathematics because It would be hard to carry on conversation con b by figures not so very hard though for It Is lone don in most diplomatic and military codes But he would prefer to send pictures b by wireless tho the human face for example This Is tempting as a n. commercial enterprise if it Martian Martla taste Is la presumed to resemble that on earth earth- earth and and such a presumption underlies fJ cr every proposal for Cor communication It it ma may bo be supposed that tho first faces to Mars lars will bo be o those of or movie favorites fa With this beginning beginning begin begin- ning feat ro films can ho bo sent b by radl across tho the solar system and released in Mars on tho the night that sees their premiere on Broadway But In all this there Is la the same fallacy that vitiates Mr Ir Marconi's Marconis proposal to communicate by mathematics tho the s supposition that the la laws of or knowledge or the tho can canons amI f ft f taste are aro universal Suppose you wireless your our fac facto ac to Mars Mara and then you rou receive tho the answer delicate but firm that Mars flu docs does not like your our face tace and has no desire to see seo more of or It This would be bo a n. regrettable rebuff to scientific Investigation and one which wo we should do o well to avoid If It civilization on Mars is an as R old 01 n an as wo are asked to believe e tho the havo have no doubt acquired their own taste in faces New Now ow York Times |
