Tesla to Seek Way To Talk with Stars

Communication Between Planets Held Possible

New York, July 9 — (AP) — Nikola Tesla is convinced other planets are inhabited and intends to devote the rest of his life to “establishing intelligent communication between two planets.”

The famous inventor, who will be 76 tomorrow, calls his present endeavor “annihilation of distance,” and interplanetary communication is one phase of that life work. “The transmission of energy to another planet is only a matter of engineering,” he said, after declaring it to be “mathematically certain” other planets are inhabited.

“Every other planet,” he explained, “has to pass through practically the same phase of existence the earth did, and life started on them during that favorable phase by rays of some sun.”

One reason he is anxious to establish communication with some other inhabited sphere is that he thinks an exchange of ideas would be beneficial to residents of this globe.

“It is conceivable,” he adds, “that there is civilization on other planets far ahead of ours. If communication were established by the earth, the consequences to the inhabitants of the earth would be incalculable.”