Re: World Contact Day

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
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 From Wikipedia:
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"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."