ladies and gentlemen, it's indescribable. Now here's another and another one and another one. "Good heavens," he declared, "something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Soon, an announcer was at the crash site describing a Martian emerging from a large metallic cylinder. Then the dance music came back on, followed by another interruption in which listeners were informed that a large meteor had crashed into a farmer's field in Grovers Mills, New Jersey. An announcer broke in to report that "Professor Farrell of the Mount Jenning Observatory" had detected explosions on the planet Mars. Then, seemingly abandoning the storyline, the announcer took listeners to "the Meridian Room in the Hotel Park Plaza in downtown New York, where you will be entertained by the music of Ramon Raquello and his orchestra." Dance music played for some time, and then the scare began. Welles introduced his radio play with a spoken introduction, followed by an announcer reading a weather report.
By then, the story of the Martian invasion was well underway. after the comedy sketch ended and a little-known singer went on. But most of these Americans were listening to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy "Charlie McCarthy" on NBC and only turned to CBS at 8:12 p.m. Sunday evening in 1938 was prime-time in the golden age of radio, and millions of Americans had their radios turned on. A voice announced: "The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations present Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the air in 'War of the Worlds' by H.G. The show began on Sunday, 30 October, at 8 p.m. "War of the Worlds" was not planned as a radio hoax, and Welles had little idea of the havoc it would cause. Despite his age, Welles had been in radio for several years, most notably as the voice of "The Shadow" in the hit mystery programme of the same name. Wells' 19th-century science fiction novel ‘War of the Worlds’ (1898) for national radio.
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Orson Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theatre company decided to update H.G. "Made on Earth by humans," read a message imprinted on the circuit board of the automobile heading into the darkness of space.Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic with his broadcast of "War of the Worlds", a realistic radio dramatisation of a Martian invasion of Earth.
The car also bore a hidden message for any extra-terrestrial beings that it may encounter on its journey that could last a billion years. With one hand firmly on the wheel, words "Don't Panic" etched on the dashboard and David Bowie's "Space Oddity" playing in the background, "Starman" was catapulted into space aboard the powerful rocket.īut dummy pilot " Starman" wasn't Elon Musk's only gimmicky-but-cool addition to the cherry red Roadster.
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The cherry red electric sports car also had a driver - a spacesuit-donning mannequin named "Starman". Adding a sweet (and promotional) touch to the most-awaited launch, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent his personal Tesla Roadster car tucked in the nose of the Falcon Heavy rocket. With the force equal to 18 747 jetliners, the Falcon Heavy with its 27 engines soared into the sky in its closely-watched maiden test flight. Elon Musk's SpaceX blasted off the world's most powerful rocket Falcon Heavy towards an orbit near Mars on Tuesday.
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