Show Signaling to Mars are arc mostly prone to 1 S SCIENTISTS term popular agitation regarding BI signalling to the planet Mars as asmore mero more toll folly yet a 0 number of or as astronomers astronomers ns- ns have havo a admitted that It Is perfectly possible All An of them claim that tho the millions of or dollars It would cost could be better bettor spent from a 0 tine entitle view point In constructing permanent permanent permanent per per- manent observatories and supplying newer telescopes with which to study not only Mars 1 but all star otar and planetary planetary plane plane- tary life lito Tho The whole theory of ot communicating with Mars rests on tho the assumption that since the planet Is further along In development than thon the tho earth Its Inhabitants If Ir any must logically bo be further advanced mentally lly than we Wt are So It Is assumed that tho the people on Mars have havo telescopes better botter than earth for thousands of years longer than our astronomers have havo studied Mars But If It this Is the tho case It seems queer tho the astronomers on Mars ars have havo not ma made o some ome attempts to communicate cato cate with tho the earth At ono one time it was asserted that signals of or somo some kind wore being sent sont out from Crom Mars but ut If this Is true truo earth scientists have o so sotar far tar been beon lacking In the Intelligence and Information to comprehend Martian Martian Mar Mar- tian signals Altogether the tho good to bo be obtained Is of ot doubtful scientific value alue and the probability of or obtaining satisfactory results Is not worth tho the Immense cost Involved Professor Robert H. H Wood tho noted physicist of tho the Johns Hopkins university university university uni uni- Is of or the tho opinion that a n cheap method of signalling to Mars would bo be to cover cr the tho white alkali plains of oC tho the Southwest with great squares of or black cloth This would reverse the method proposed b by Professor Pickering Pickering Pick Pick- ering of Columbia who su suggests ests huge hUlo mirrors flashing sunlight Dr Woods Wood's Idea Is to signal by dark signs ProCessor Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor Cessor Pickerings Pickering's Idea Idon was to Ilasa 1 light Either signal would be bo the same thing merely merel reversed re |