Word: marse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The idea that there might be life-human life, animal life-on Mars, based on the existence of geometrical lines on the surface of the planet, led naturally to attempts to receive communications. Several radio stations, at the instance of Professor David Todd, of Amherst, were tempted to listen. Positive...
¶At sea, the steamship France encountered an electric storm which upset radio communication, and the gullible press suggested "Mars!"
In the main the results were decidedly negative. Some study of the planet was made from certain observatories. The Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., which "specializes in Mars," made observations in an effort to advance the tenets of the late Professor Percival Lowell that there is life on the planet...
There is considerable dispute as to the exact conditions which pertain on Mars' surface, so that there is ample room for difference of opinion as to the possibility of life. Conditions are certainly different from those on the Earth, but it is just as impossible to say that there...
"The chances are that, taking any planet at random, it is unlikely that we should find on it anything akin to human life. That there is life of some sort on Mars is probable enough. Prof. Lowell's opinion about the canals may be doubted, but the evidence he...