'War of the Worlds' Radio Broadcast Terrified Listeners 80 Years Ago. Would E.T. Contact Cause...

'War of the Worlds' Radio Broadcast Terrified Listeners 80 Years Ago. Would E.T. Contact Cause...

'War of the Worlds' Radio Broadcast Terrified Listeners 80 Years Ago. Would E.T. Contact Cause Panic Today?





'War of the Worlds' Radio Broadcast Terrified Listeners 80 Years Ago. Would E.T. Contact Cause Panic Today?


		On this day (October 30), 80 years ago, actor Orson Welles announced to the audience on a chilling radio that Martians were invading New Jersey, prompting terrified listeners to believe that Earth was being attacked by aliens. hostile.

		But the supposed news was false. The famous Welles broadcast was a dramatization of the classic science fiction of H.G. Wells, "The War of the Worlds", and was part of a weekly series of dramatic broadcasts created in collaboration with the Mercury Theater on the Air for CBS, according to transcription of the emission.

		Thanks to decades of space research, the understanding of extraterrestrial life has come a long way from Welles' radio, and it is generally understood that Mars is not the home of an advanced alien civilization with lethal weaponry and spacecraft. Public fascination with extraterrestrials is still high; however, a modern ad about alien creatures would likely elicit a very different response today than "War of the Worlds" in 1938, experts told Live Science.

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		During the radio broadcast, Welles pretended to be a news announcer who was interrupting a scheduled musical presentation. With a rising tone of alarm, he described the telescope's observations of "three explosions" on Mars, and then presented reports at the scene in Grover's Mill, a city near Princeton, New Jersey. As the drama developed, the artists posing as witnesses described unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and "strange creatures" firing a futuristic heat ray that had killed dozens of people.

		Listen to the full broadcast here, courtesy of Archive.org:



	

		Although the program was peppered with reminders that it was theatrical, many people thought that the alien invasion was real, and breathless newspaper headlines later described the widespread panic caused by the prospect of an alien invasion.

		"Thousands of listeners ran out of their homes in New York and New Jersey, many with towels on their faces to protect themselves from the 'gas' that the invader was supposed to be spitting on," the Daily News reported. reported the next day.





						


On October 31, 1938, the cover of the New York Daily News newspaper noted the panic caused by Welles' broadcast.

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		While listeners fell in love with the story of a Martian invasion, space scientists at the time already knew that Mars was not capable of harboring a thriving civilization of intelligent aliens, Seth Shostak, a high-level astronomer with Search for the Institute of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in California, told Live Science.

		"Certainly, at the end of the 1930s, nobody believed it." Astronomers increased their knowledge: Mars has a very thin atmosphere; there is not much oxygen; "We do not see liquid water on the surface," Shostak said. All this suggested that if we had an intelligent cosmic company in the universe, it was not on Mars, not even in our solar system, he explained.

		In fact, the violent episode described by Welles is by far the least likely scenario of how humans could find extraterrestrial life, according to scientific writer Michael Wall, author of "Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter and Human Space Travel "For Cosmically Curious People" (Grand Central Publishing, November 11, 2018).



		Alien microbes, not alien monsters.

		An alien military attack would involve aliens who are not only intelligent and technically advanced, but also know that humans exist and can travel to our solar system, Wall told Live Science. An unlikely number of variables would have to fit in place for that to happen. A stronger possibility is that our first encounter with extraterrestrial life will be to find microbes from other worlds, which is much more likely to be common throughout the cosmos than smart organisms, said Wall, who is a senior writer on Live Science's sister site, Space.com.

		Today, an announcement about the discovery of extraterrestrial microbes is much more likely to promote fascination That panic, he said. 

		"With all the news about exoplanets. [planets outside our solar system], people are prepared for this, "said Wall. Those who pay attention know how much real estate there is. And it makes sense that if there is something out there, it would be microbial. "

		However, although microbes may be the first "extraterrestrials" we will encounter, that does not rule out the possibility of detecting intelligent extraterrestrial communications, Shostak told Live Science.

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		Listening to aliens

		SETI scan the skies daily for radio signals that can be produced by intelligent life forms. And although there is probably a much less intelligent life in the universe than microbial life, intelligent aliens could potentially transmit their presence at much greater distances.

		"Microbes can produce oxygen in the atmosphere, but intelligent life could produce giant lasers or radio transmitters, so you could listen to them from further away," Shostak said.

		One way we could find distant aliens is through the detection of their radio signals, the subject of tireless SETI searches using the Allen Telescope Array at the Radio Creek Observatory in California. But SETI is also building equipment to look for possible extraterrestrial signals produced by laser beams, Shostak said.

		Of course, finding these signals requires that supposedly intelligent aliens We point them in our general direction. However, Shostak is confident that one of these signals will be detected sooner than he believes.

		"I bet a cup of coffee to a lot of people that we'll find something in two dozen years," Shostak said. "And that's because the team is improving and improving."

		A first encounter with E.T. through microbes or distant signal transmissions would be much less frightening than hearing about creatures with tentacles and weapons that set our cities on fire. After the broadcast, Welles said he had no idea that people would take the program so seriously; He issued an apology saying that "it was a terribly shocking experience to realize that it had caused such widespread terror" The princetoniano newspaper He reported on November 1, 1938.



	Originally published in Living science.



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