"Making Love to Mars"

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 35, 15 March 1929, Page 4

"Making Love to Mars"

A LONDON writer says: "Dr. Mansfield Robinson still makes love to Mars. It is now reported that he has hopes of getting through to that planet from Brazil, on 22,000 metres. I am pretty well acquainted with the business. capabilities of the chief of the Rio de Janeiro station, and should not be surprised to hear that he has fixed up a contract with Dr. Robinson, providing for one call per week per annum, and, for an extra fee, a guaranteed reply, with the Mars postmark on it. After all, the doctor’s money is as good as anybody else’s! "But the principle back of Dr. Robinson’s experiments is not so fantastic as might at first be thought. I have doubts about Mars, but why should we confine speculation and experiment to the insignificant scattering of dust which we call our solar system? "There are millions more suns, each with its system of satellites. Is it so incredible that in an infinite universe peopled by countless millions of worlds there should be only one world on which intelligent life exists? I think not! But I am not at all sure that 22,000 metres is .he right wave-length to get at it."