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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: World Contact Day Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:15:56 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: <vrtvos$335f3$1@dont-email.me> References: <0001HW.2D853AB200FD2E217000083FD38F@news.eternal-september.org> <pan$114ff$335f6e5$49cfab07$174c1579@cpacker.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:15:57 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b1da9507010f4abdf887cf24c5d33d33"; logging-data="3249635"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/wbngC3N5en72fNV7d88v7zFtPQ7o+l6s=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:HQPrasXdW76vatvkvTHJBk0PxOU= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <pan$114ff$335f6e5$49cfab07$174c1579@cpacker.org> Bytes: 1825 On 16/03/2025 07:58, Charles Packer 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? There's a telepathic episode in Charlotte Bronte's _Jane Eyre_ (1847). Ther characters might be mutants. "Am I hideous, Jane?" "Very, sir; you always were, you know."