"On Mars we have a big laboratory with all sorts of instruments
with which we can pick up anything in our solar system, be it human
activities or natural disturbances," explained our host. "We have
tried innumerable times to contact the Earth using many means, but
your scientists are not well enough developed. They have too many
complications in their own minds and their method is not simplified.
Every time we have succeeded in reaching the Earth and our messages
picked up by your crude instruments, your scientists have always named
it something else like cosmic rays and many other things."
"True. There are cosmic rays in space, for each planet radiates
outwardly from its own body, intermingling with its neighboring
planets, plus the sun radiates to them all. Between these rays are
neutral lanes so fine that they are undetectable, and through these
we send our messages to Earth and to other planets. Ofttimes our
messages are impregnated with these cosmic rays, as you Earth men
call it, but if the Earth men had the proper instruments whereby they
could screen the cosmic ray out, they would get our messages. Your
crude form of transmission which you call radio, crude but good for a
beginning, gets interference as you call it, from time to time which
is not due to sun interference, as you think it is. It is mostly due
to us using tremendous power of transmission to alert the Earth men
to our messages, but even then we do not seem to be successful. Yes,
there have been some stray messages caught by some of your alert radio
operators as they were experimenting just to see what they could get,
which were sent from us to Earth, for we can send messages to you in
your own language, in your own code, since we are far enough advanced
that we can master any and all tongues in our solar system. But the
few messages that you have caught have been given absolutely false
interpretation. And speaking of sending messages, remember when you
shot the Moon with radar? You alerted the inhabitants on the Moon as
well as those on every planet in our system, and we all have answered
you; but we have received no answer from you, proving that people
beyond the Earth are more alert than people on the Earth. However
we are daily awaiting that reply which should come in the very near
future, for we know that your scientists are working towards that end.
"We even commune with what you call the lower forms of life, like
animals and so forth. To us there is no high nor low for all forms are
creations of the Creator and are respected alike."
At this, we suddenly awakened to the realization that all this talking
which we have been telling of was told to us in our own language.
There was no sign language employed. And we were surprised and
relieved! For we know now that we will be able to get much information
direct and correctly.
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