Talking with Planets
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"Tesla now firmly believes that, with improved apparatus, it will be quite possible for the people of the earth to communicate with the inhabitants of other planets." Tesla's Call From Mars? New York Sun, January 3, 1901"Tesla became convinced that the signal may have originated from a neighboring planet and be evidence of an alien intelligence." - The Truth About Tesla (2018)"Tesla published his 'Talking with the Planets,' which is full of oracular pronouncements, including the claim that he had detected an extraterrestrial signal.""My first observations positively terrified me, as there was present in them something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night," explains Nikola Tesla in describing what he believed was perhaps man's first communication with alien beings from another planet.In 1901, while Tesla was conducting experiments tapping into the earth's geomagnetic pulse for sending electronic messages, his sensitive equipment began picking up mysterious rythmic beeping signals. Tesla would later allege that these signal were of alien origin, as he explained in "Talking with the Planets," a 10-page article published in Collier's Weekly (February 9th, 1901), republished here.In describing the alien signals, Tesla "The Martians, or the inhabitants of whatever planet had signalled to us, would understand at once that we had caught their message across the gulf of space and had sent back a response. To convey a knowledge of form by such means is, while very difficult, not impossible, and I have already found a way of doing it."About the Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.