Posted by dorayme on 01/25/07 20:30

In article
<1169720373.296814.221120@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 24 Jan, 09:39, Toby Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > You can't compare it with 19th century telecommunications because there
> > were no 19th century attempts to use telecommunications technologies in
> > space.
>
> There certainly were! There's a whole history of attempts to signal to
> the canal-dwellers of Mars with optical telegraphs.
>
> Perhaps dorayme could ask one of their grand-siblings?

My first thoughts exactly. But I immediately ran into inheritance
problems when I probed the matter.

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dorayme

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