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US Navy Was Ordered To Listen For Martian Broadcast
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."
How about they start listening for an African broadcast. Have those spear-chuckers discovered the electromagnetic spectrum yet? Or are they still inventing ways to handle peanuts?
That's very disrespectful to the chinese...