[ WP ] Two earth like planets occupy the same solar system ...

First indications were by telescope, thousands of years ago when primitive scientists constructed the first working telescopes. The idea of extra solar bodies was radical at the time, but eventually our ancestors accepted them. More powerful telescopes and imaging equipment were created, as technology progressed with the drag of time. Humanity's obsession with their stellar neighbors grew stronger, and scientists took every look they could. 
 
 By the words of one gifted man: 
 
 `` The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.'' How fortune we are to have neighbors with which to share them. 
 
 In 1920, the first commercial radio stations came into operation. The use of radio caused a major paradigm shift in information exchange, not only for the people of Earth, but also for the people of Mars. 
 
 U.S.A. Government Communication headquarters experienced unanticipated interference on August 22nd, 1923, a brief and unintelligible radio signal. Technicians dismissed the incident, which had also been experienced by multiple Earth government listening stations, as anomalous; no one believed that the signals were anything to worry over. September 3rd, 1923 saw another interruption of industrial radio services in the form of a six second broadcast in an unknown language. Radio technicians could not dismiss the clearer signal as anomalous. 
 
 Canada was the first country in the world to construct a radio telescope with the aid of U.S. assistance in 1928. It took several months for the origin of multiple unknown broadcasts from off planet, to Mars. 
 
 The nations of Earth experienced a lull in war-time activities, interrupted by the pursuit of their distant neighbor. Mars was the origin of radio broadcasts, and the world's scientific, political, philosophic, and social communities cried out. Arguments erupted among religious leaders, the world's leaders ordered rifles set down in order to discuss the possibility of interstellar cousins next door, as well as dispute whether or not they were cousins at all. 
 
 The United States and Canada sent the first message in 1950, some time after World War II. High powered transmitters had been constructed for the express purpose of sending powerful, direct messages to Mars. The messages were simple, at first, and likely ineffective in the form of greetings, questions, morse code. Two years after the initial transmissions, clearer broadcasts could be heard by even amateur radio enthusiasts in the Martian language, more alien to Earth than any local country compared to another. 
 
 The fascination with Mars died down, as the messages began to stagnate. Many scientists argued that communication was limited by technology, and the drive for communicative innovations began. 
 
 Everything changed in 1972, when the Arecibo message was received by 
 the Arecibo Radio Telescope, in Puerto Rico. U.S. scientists took several months to recognize the broadcast as a binary transmission. The binary message was deciphered by a team of university students in England. 
 
 The world was in uproar, as more information had been gained about the Martian population than all the time in decades of language exchange, and tiny broadcasts. The Martians must have looked similar to humans, they understood the periodic table of elements, and they counted numbers in base twelve. 
 
 A response message was sent immediately. Communications between Mars and Earth became exclusively computerized data, and much of the information was immediately classified. 
 
 In 1976, the `` Viking 1'' was launched to capture close-up pictures of Mars. 
 
 Everything changed. The transmissions from Viking 1 revealed that the population of Mars was an insectoid bipedal race with six fingers, explaining their way of counting. A few cities of Mars were mapped, and the civilization of Mars was deemed as neither more advanced, nor less advanced. 
 
 The Martians had not developed fuels capable of launching objects into orbit, they could not escape their planet. 
 
 Over the next four decades, Earth and Mars made increased communications. More powerful broadcast technologies allowed short-term conversations which were limited only by the near-speed of light. Scientists from both planets began to communicate in twenty-two minute intervals, making language translation a long, arduous process. Eventually, world leaders from Mars, and Earth communicated with the aid of specially trained translators. 
 
 Mars did not have the resources to make escape velocity; the Martians were deadlocked to their home. Many nations believed that the Martians would benefit from the aid of Earth, and if the masses of cultures could better collaborate, the solar system would be better as a whole. 
 
 SpaceX announced their mission to Mars in 2016. 
 

