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David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> wrote:

Saturday, March 15, 2025 is World Contact Day

From Wikipedia:

"World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization called >the International Flying Saucer Bureau, as a day on which all IFSB members >would attempt to send a telepathic message into space."

This informative video may help explain things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4IUjjVfng

Note that the lead-in on this is nearly a whole minute and you can skip it
as most DJs did.
--scott
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On 3/15/2025 12:33 AM, David Dalton wrote:

Saturday, March 15, 2025 is World Contact Day

"World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau, as a day on which all IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space."

Julius Caesar certainly experienced contact on the Ides of March.


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Mike Benveniste -- mhb@murkyether.com (Clarification Required)
Such commentary has become ubiquitous on the Internet and is widely
perceived to carry no indicium of reliability and little weight.
(Digital Media News v. Escape Media Group, May 2014).

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On 3/14/2025 11:33 PM, David Dalton wrote:

Saturday, March 15, 2025 is World Contact Day

From Wikipedia:

"World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau, as a day on which all IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space."

I joined in and actually got a reply. We've been trying to contact you
since your world's extended warranty is about to expire.

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On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 02:03:54 -0230, David Dalton wrote:

Saturday, March 15, 2025 is World Contact Day

From Wikipedia:

"World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization
called the International Flying Saucer Bureau, as a day on which all
IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space."

Speaking of telepathy, does anyone know of SF prior to "Slan" by van Vogt (1940) in which telepathy is a plot element?

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Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 02:03:54 -0230, David Dalton wrote:

Saturday, March 15, 2025 is World Contact Day

From Wikipedia:

"World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization
called the International Flying Saucer Bureau, as a day on which all
IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space."

Speaking of telepathy, does anyone know of SF prior to "Slan" by van Vogt >(1940) in which telepathy is a plot element?

Rudyard Kipling's _Wireless_ (1902).
--scott
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On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 08:07:03 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:

Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 02:03:54 -0230, David Dalton wrote:

Saturday, March 15, 2025 is World Contact Day

From Wikipedia:

"World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization
called the International Flying Saucer Bureau, as a day on which all
IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space."

Speaking of telepathy, does anyone know of SF prior to "Slan" by van
Vogt (1940) in which telepathy is a plot element?

Rudyard Kipling's _Wireless_ (1902). --scott

Yes, I learned about that one earlier. It's an important one
for my purposes because it makes a connection with radio
transmissioon, though indirectly. Otherwise, SF seems to be
silent on telepathy and the paranormal up until
after John W Campbell -- reportedly a telepathy enthusiast -- came
on the scene. This is surprising since telepathy was in the news
a lot because of experiments promoted by radio broadcasters,
By 1937 there was even a racehorse named Telepathy.

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Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

Rudyard Kipling's _Wireless_ (1902). --scott

Yes, I learned about that one earlier. It's an important one
for my purposes because it makes a connection with radio
transmissioon, though indirectly.

Yes, and in part it was following Sir Oliver Lodge in that regard. At
the time most people really didn't get Maxwell's equations which isn't
all that surprising since they were pretty incomprehensible until
Heaviside developed a new notation to simplify them and make them
useful by ordinary engineers.

So at the time a lot of people saw electromagnetic fields as just a
mysterious action at a distance, very much like some form of
telepathy.

Otherwise, SF seems to be
silent on telepathy and the paranormal up until
after John W Campbell -- reportedly a telepathy enthusiast -- came
on the scene. This is surprising since telepathy was in the news
a lot because of experiments promoted by radio broadcasters,
By 1937 there was even a racehorse named Telepathy.

Agreed; I am surprised there is not more out there.
--scott

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On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:53:30 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:

Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

Rudyard Kipling's _Wireless_ (1902). --scott

Yes, I learned about that one earlier. It's an important one for my >>purposes because it makes a connection with radio transmissioon, though >>indirectly.

Yes, and in part it was following Sir Oliver Lodge in that regard. At
the time most people really didn't get Maxwell's equations which isn't
all that surprising since they were pretty incomprehensible until
Heaviside developed a new notation to simplify them and make them useful
by ordinary engineers.

So at the time a lot of people saw electromagnetic fields as just a mysterious action at a distance, very much like some form of telepathy.

Except that I've discovered evidence in 1869 newspapers that
at least somebody was thinking about ether and possible
"undulations" through it of a "brain-wave" to carry thoughts.
This precedes the 1883 date generally accepted for the origins
of telepathy (see the Wikipedia article). The newspaper stories
cite an anonymous article in the British magazine Spectator.

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On 3/17/2025 7:53 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
[snip-snip]

Otherwise, SF seems to be
silent on telepathy and the paranormal up until
after John W Campbell -- reportedly a telepathy enthusiast -- came
on the scene. This is surprising since telepathy was in the news
a lot because of experiments promoted by radio broadcasters,
By 1937 there was even a racehorse named Telepathy.

Agreed; I am surprised there is not more out there.

The ISFDB database lets you search by user-assigned "tag". A search on "telepathy" finds over 500 titles. Regular (as opposed to Advanced)
Search sorts by date, so you'll want to go to the last page -- https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag.cgi?491+500 -- which shows titles
first published between 1889 and 1929 . The preceding page -- https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag.cgi?491+400 -- shows titles first
published between 1929 and 1939.

Adjacent tags include "mind control", "animal telepathy", "mechanical telepathy", etc.

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