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Nelson studied the records of RCA's receiving station at Riverhead, N.Y., looking for some correlation between the magnetic storms and the positions of the planets. He found that most of the storms took place when two or more planets were in what he calls a "configuration": i.e., with...
Mars & Mercury. Not all configurations coincide with storms. But the Riverhead records, begun in 1932, show that radio disturbances have occurred about ten times more frequently on the days of planetary configurations than on ordinary days. Nelson can also predict, in a general way, the periods that will probably be...
Nelson does not know how the planets affect the sun; he merely invites astronomers to build a theory upon his observations. Meanwhile, RCA is using the Nelson prediction system with practical success. Last week Nelson noted that Mars and Mercury were approaching a configuration. Warned of the coming magnetic storm...
In a Social Relations 1a annual talk, Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, specializes on thousands of people who were led astray. For one hour, he plays a recording of Orson Welles' famous 1989 broadcast "War Between the Worlds", which simulated as on-the-spot news story of the...
In the 3½ years since flying saucers first came flipping and flashing across Page One, the wilder stories about tiny men from Mars and interplanetary craft that dissolved in the earth's atmosphere had been pretty well exposed as hoaxes or hallucinations. But most people were still sure...