Mars And The Earth

Sir Robert BaTl does uot fail iu his facnlty lor apt and convincing illustration. LecturJDgat Dover on "Wliat We Know of Other Worlds, "; he s;;iil tbat one of the most ordinary questiona he was asked was, Did he think "those other worlds" were inhabited; liadthey real men, vromen and children hke ours? He could only reply that he really did not know, and tliere was no possible means of finding out. There had been sorne talk of our aitempting to signal to Mars, and to establish comnrjiiication with any living beings who might be existing there. To do this we shmild want a flag 500 miles long and 150 miles broad - about the size of Ireland. When we had found a pole for such a flag and a means of waving it.then should some astronomer on that planet chance to be looking at us while the flag was waving he might possibly see a little speek going to and fro on otir earth, and might think we were up to something down here. The probabilities are all against there being intelligent life in Mars and here on the earth at the same time. In conclusión, Sir Robert Ball declared that the area of the heavens known to lis is only like a dewdrop before the vast Atlantic ocean of the unknowu, and the niind of man writhos as it tries to tent of sidereal