Tesla was convinced that life existed on Mars and that his power broadcasting apparatus would allow him to easily communicate with the mysterious inhabitants of the red planet on the grounds that with the power he had available, distance was no object.  When his friends pointed out that Tesla himself claimed that his power broadcaster worked by sending vibrations through the Earth and that there was no air in space to carry any "vibrations" to Mars, Tesla dismissed them as "not helping."

During his Colorado Springs days, Tesla was so predisposed to the idea of Martians that he was convinced that rhythmic clicking from his receiver was nothing less than a message from Mars.  Since then, some have claimed that what Tesla heard were natural radio sources from outer space, though it is more likely that it was a fault in his own equipment.   Whatever it was, Tesla never gave up on his hopes of being the first to make the Big Hello with Mars and continued to add it to his To Do list for his World System for decades to come.

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