Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1926 — Page 8

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MARS MESSAGES UNLIKELY, THINK SKY SCIENTISTS British to Give Heavenly Orb a Rest —Others Worry Over It. Bu United Press LONDON, July 2. English science is giving Mars a rest. After more than twenty years of fruitless effort to establish communication with our planetary neighbor 35,"000,000 miles distant, English astonojners have abandoned the idea and settled down to bhe more practical and routine duty of solving the problem of the internal temperatures of stars. Other nations can now cease to worry over any immediate prospects of the extension of the British imperial policy to the other worlds of the universe And the people of Mars. “Although a few ‘cranks’ in the world of astronomy still appear greatly excited over the hope of the establishment of communication with Mars we are no longer taking an interest in the subject,” an official of the Royal Astronomical Society told the United Press today. “It is possible that life Jn some form does exist on Mars, but whether this life could comprehend any kind of communication from other parts of the. universe is very doubtful. "The public, in its present comprehension of the theory of life on Mars, has been greatly misled by astronomers themselves in the talk of the ‘canals’ of Mars. Peoplg now a're almost lead to believe through the all too loose talk of Martian canals and bodies of water that the planet

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Non-Stop Flight '' Across Pacific

Commander Francesco de Pinedo, famous Italian aviator, will start a 44,800-mile flight aroiujd the world in August. In the course of it he will try to fly clear across the Pacific ocean, a non-stop flight of 2,560 , miles. is inhabited by humans like ourselves who spend their days digging these canals and doing other tasks much the same as we do. of course erroneously created by astronomers themselves.” It is pointed out that the flgst spectroscopic observations made by the astronomer Huggins in 1567, indicated the presence of water on the planet and the view has been supported by others."' Lowell was the first astronomer to propose the system of canals, perhaps artificially made.

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