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Subject: Re: World Contact Day
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 07:58:43 -0000 (UTC)
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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?