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US Navy Was Ordered To Listen For Martian Broadcast

Posted by samzenpus on from the roaring-extraterrestrial-20's dept.

MarkWhittington writes "It seems that a SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) experiment happened decades before the Project Ozma occurred in 1960. The historians at the blog Letters of Note have uncovered a telegram sent in 1924 by then Chief of Naval Operations Edward W. Eberle instructing the United States Navy to listen for radio transmissions from the planet Mars."

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  1. Response reads... by syousef · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one...."

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  2. Re:Transmission was heard... by AHuxley · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Its s Simpons reference "Join the Navy"

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  3. The chances of anything coming from Mars... by White+Flame · · Score: 0, Redundant

    are a million to one, he said!