Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-02-02 | Page 5 | Communication with Planets is Possible

Communication With j Planets Is Possible j PAH1S, Feb. 2 The Academy of Science evidently considers communl-j communl-j cation between the earth and the plan-els plan-els as amons the possibilities, for it ihas undertaken to act as judge for a Jprlro of 100,000 francs to be given for1 I tho best means of making a sign lo a heavenly body and tho receipt of a re-i re-i ply. It has been the custom of the acad-i acad-i emv always tp refuse to handle prizes for any feat which it considers a mere-waste mere-waste of time. In presenting the present pres-ent prize for competition the academy makes tho proviso that "the plauot Ulars Is included as being sufficiently known." 1 "Until a solution is obtained," says .the academy's announcement, "the interest in-terest in the pri.e money will form a I prize for scientists making the great QBt progress in knowledge of the planets plan-ets and their relation to the earth' I oo I