{"id":7605,"date":"2009-12-03T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/mars-calling-so-listen-up\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:12:25","slug":"mars-calling-so-listen-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/mars-calling-so-listen-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars calling&#8230;  SO LISTEN UP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjDGlVvfCPxT1fmK_y5uAM93zyp3ehm9AjyBsBGxSZVyLyc45-t0ALBuDw1U1fO_1IY9kUSe8Ehs4pPCSQEObWiLODUHzgKv9_rclaq178y8meTHqNse27Hxjo1pL3sdj0skZQV8ac7I54\/s1600-h\/4080312434_411e7559ba_o.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 324px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/4080312434_411e7559ba_o.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410868492704240018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>George, K8VU, alerted me to this wonderful blog that presents interesting bits of correspondence: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/\"> http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/<\/a> This telegram from the Secretary of the Navy caught my eye. There is also a letter from Galileo, complete with diagrams of Jupiter&#8217;s moons (his diagrams look just the ones I draw today). Also, check out the letter from Oppenheimer recommending Richard Feynman for a job at UCAL Berkeley: Feynman is described as being &#8220;a second Dirac, only this time human.&#8221; (Poor Dirac. He was once having dinner with a close friend. In an effort make conversation, the friend asked, &#8220;Have you been to the threater lately?&#8221; Long pause, then the response: &#8220;Why do you ask?&#8221; )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George, K8VU, alerted me to this wonderful blog that presents interesting bits of correspondence: http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/ This telegram from the Secretary of the Navy caught my eye. There is also a letter from Galileo, complete with diagrams of Jupiter&#8217;s moons (his diagrams look just the ones I draw today). Also, check out the letter from Oppenheimer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/mars-calling-so-listen-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mars calling&#8230;  SO LISTEN UP!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7607,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions\/7607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}