No mention of the problem of] the possibility or impossibility of radio communication with other planets was made by Dr. Fleming, but our scientific correspondent informs us that it would take a radio station of hundreds of millions of horsepower capacity to fling a message to Mars.
Interviewed after the lecture by the Daily News," Senator Marconi explained that the conducting screen described by Dr. Fleming, while it might prevent the escape into outer space of "commercial" waves of long wave length, would not hinder the progress of waves of much shorter wave length. Ho declined to give any opinion on the possibilities of interplanetary wireless.
Since we have no radio station on earth of a capacity in the least approaching millions of horsepower, it seems that the men on Mars (if there are any) will have to Wait on in patience for some time to come for any message from us.
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