History 2186A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Martian Canal, The Panic Broadcast, Cbs Building
10 Dec 2016
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Exists many claims and detailed accounts of alien abduction. Most people in today"s society do not fear alien abduction and creatures from outer space coming to take over the world. There have been times in relatively recent history where people have been generally frightened of alien invasion. History of space beings in popular culture producing fear about alien beings. People of the human race began to question life in outer space close to 100 years before space exploration. Came about largely through pop culture rather than science. Typically, these creatures always came from mars. 1870s, astronomers announces that they had discovered water on mars (yet they were wrong and did not have actual proof) Announcement was enough itself to generate public interest, began speculation that. Developed from percival lowell, an astronomer, who published 1890s-1910s a series of books of what life could be like on mars.
