Is Anybody Out There? Communicating With Our Interplanetary Brothers

Mysterious Universe

May 9, 2013 Andrew Nicholson

What we know today as the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) had its genesis back in November of 1961 when the movement’s first conference was held at Green Bank, West Virginia. At that initial meeting of brilliant, questioning minds, there were just 10 in attendance. Among them were Frank Drake and Carl Sagan. While today it has its critics, chief among them Ufology Elder Stanton Friedman, SETI is in any case generally considered the first serious attempt to reach out to the stars to answer that most fundamental of all questions: Is there anybody else out there?

Or is it? As we shall see, attempts to communicate with our interplanetary brothers far outdate that initial SETI meeting at Green Bank, West Virginia.

While peering at the Red Planet through his telescope in 1877, Italian astronomer, Giovanni Schiaparelli, observed long straight lines running across the equatorial regions of Mars. He called these canali and they appeared to be confirmed later by Irish astronomer, Charles. E. Burton, who made some of the first drawings of these canals. Schiaparelli’s discovery caused a sensation. If there were canals carved into the Martian landscape, who could have carved them?

Obviously, it could only have been the Martians.

Electronic genius and inventor extraordinaire, Nikola Tesla, postulated as far back as 1896 that radio could be used to communicate with these Martians. At the turn of the century, using a Tesla coil receiver, he apparently picked up repetitive signals that, at the time, he interpreted as coming from Mars. Marconi also believed that radio signals could be used to contact the inhabitants of Mars and claimed that his radio stations had in fact picked up radio signals from the planet.

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