Show fLASHING LIGHTS TO SIGNAL PLANET Syracuse N X Y Y May Mav 16 D. Dr ilian R. R Brooks Drooks of or Hobart college Geneva Is out with a new plan for Cor signaling to MarsI Mars I have a suggestion that I 1 hell believe eve Is practical ho ito said Hald today Let us mis construct a n largo large area areo of or electric lI lights so ISO arranged that all can cun be turned on and off ort at l once enabling us to give signals by b means of long and Hashes flashes Such signals are Cal fai am- am more likely to be bo seen een on Mars If It there tImers are intelligent beings being there than signals ls lashed flashed from mirrors as suggested I II by Prof Pickering of ot Harvard lIar college for tor forthe forthe the following iea reasons ons When Whelm Mars tars l is at opposition next September tIme the earth will have htwe Its dark side turned toward that planet so It will be bt Impo impossible for tor us lUJ to Hash flash the time sunlight In iii th that t direction When hen next our light shall be bo turned toward Mars Mara MaraIn Marsin In time the following Jul our neighboring planets will ho bo fIfty million miles away Also ADO tho signals would be more likely likely like like- ly Iy to be seen on Mars Mais for fOI the reason that the time On flashes heH would be with the time a darkness an as the time signaling could bo be done dono at night S I Lr if j 1 f j |