That Mars Is Inhabited, scientists are convinced, and for years efforts to communicate with the planet, 35,000,000 miles away, have been made without avail.
Category: Weird Science
History of Mars (until 1904)
The first entry in the story is off by almost 400 years, Ptolemy wasn’t born until 100 A.D.
The Washington Times Washington D.C., April 17, 1904
Martian Beavers?
SINCE scientists, after years of earnest and competent research, have been unable to detect one clear sign of manlike life on Mars, an amazing theory is now being presented to explain why the red planet may be inhabited by a race of beavers. It is a fascinating story of evolution. Continue reading “Martian Beavers?”
WE’RE DOOMED! (Again)
The San Fransisco Call, October 4, 1896
Lowell Observatory, 1898
Newspaper sketch of the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff Arizona. It was from here that Percival Lowell mapped out the canals of Mars.
Earth and Mars Wireless Company, Inc.
The Roswell Daily Record. Roswell, NM, June 05, 1909
Photophone, 1897
A Midocean City
A Future City Anchored in Midocean
Fascinating Dream of the French Engineer Foenquinos to Float a New All-Steel Atlantis Midway Between Europe and America in the Gulf Stream — A Haven and Paradise to Be Eighth Wonder of the World.
The Marseilles engineer proposes to build his floating city on an immense steel ring, in the center of which will be an enclosed harbor that may be entered by passing under on of the four towers.
When the Moon Comes Down, 1936
ASTRONOMERS like to scare their hearers from time to time, like the old-fashioned nurse telling children about ogres, with pictures of the end of the world. It may be burnt up by the exploding sun, or frozen by the sun’s extinction (though the latter is less probable); it may lose all its air by radiation into space, and chemical absorption into the earth. But, at the close, the audience is reassured that their fear of its happening in a million years is baseless—that the earth has at least ten million years of existence ahead—and they go away relieved.
Man In The Moon, A Truck Gardener? 1921
(Note: Truck Farm – A small farm producing vegetables for commercial sale, usually to local markets.)
WE have all seen the Man In In the Moon. So we know there is a man. But is he alive? And is he a truck gardener? That’s some thing different again.
Well, Prof. William II. Pickering of Harvard says there is vegetable life on the moon. He doesn’t say there are cultivated crops, but he insists on the lunar vegetation. And he takes particular pains not to say that there is intelligent animal life on the moon. One thing is sure Professor Pickering is one of the greatest living astronomers and has been studying the moon pretty steadily for two years. Continue reading “Man In The Moon, A Truck Gardener? 1921”