 How do Formians communicate with each other?
So far as it has been possible to test the direction of the source of these waves, it appears that the direction has a twenty-four hour cycle, thus indicating that the origin of these waves is some point outside the earth. The university authorities will express no opinion as to whether or not these messages come from Mars. Myles, alone of all the radio engineers of my acquaintance, was competent to surmount these difficulties, and thus enable the Cambridge savants to receive with clearness the message from another planet. They utterly failed to comprehend the matter-transmitting apparatus, and so—after the fallen tower had been reerected and the rubbish cleared away—they had devoted their attention to the restoration of the conversational part of the set. In conventional radioese, I repeated the sounds to the Harvard group: “Dah-dit-dah-dit dah-dah-dit-dah. The next day a party of prominent scientists, accompanied by a telegrapher and two stenographers, arrived at my farm. Ants, six-footed, and six feet high. And then events began to differ from those of the past; for the three other Formians halted, and Doggo advanced alone. But Myles no longer possessed the wonderful electrical headset which he had contrived and built during his previous visit to that planet, so as to talk with Cupians and Formians, both of which races are earless and converse by means of radiations from their antennae. 11 He dreaded the paralyzing bite which Formians usually administer to their victims, and which he had twice experienced in the past; but, fortunately, it was not now forthcoming. The other three ants kept away from him as Doggo led him to the beached airplane, and soon they were scudding along beneath silver skies, northward as it later turned out. He was home once more, back again upon the planet which held all that was dear to him in two worlds. What mattered it that he was now a prisoner, in the hands (or, rather, claws) of his old enemies, the Formians? He wondered what could have happened in Cupia since his departure, only a few sangths ago. In either event, how had they been able to reconquer Cupia? These and a hundred other similar questions flooded in upon the earth-man, as the Formian airship carried him, a captive, through the skies. Apparently a few survivors of the accursed race of Formians were consolidating their position and attempting to build up a new empire in some out-of-the-way portion of the continent.
 Via antenna
 Via pencil and paper  Via radio  Via Morse code  Via antenna