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From: Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org>
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Subject: Re: World Contact Day
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:56:54 -0000 (UTC)
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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.