 so the post office charged him their long distance rate which i think was kind of funny and i think they were able to promote that idea to get press about what they were doing and he sent this message uh... to mars and fully expected a response and this was covered by newspapers around the world like this was ended up being a pretty big story and of course he didn't get any message back and he tried it again two years later uh... mars was on position about every two years or so so he tried it again and of course again received nothing in response and he