MSNBC: Attempts to contact aliens date back 150 years

The desire to contact intelligent life on other planets is much older than the UFO craze and the SETI movement. Several 19th century scientists contemplated how we might communicate with possible Martians and Venusians. Full story:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28916124/

* Talking to the Gods:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-to-gods.html

* They are here!:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2008/10/they-are-here.html
* Astronauts of antiquity:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2008/10/astronauts-of-antiquity.html