‘Do you eat?’ What happened when Guardian readers tried to contact Martians

In 1929, the Guardian asked readers what they would say to potential inhabitants of Mars.

Their answers ranged from requests for cancer cures, to a cricket team challenge • Don’t get Cluesletter, our weekly puzzles newsletter, delivered to your inbox? Sign up here If you could send a message to the Martians, what would you say to them? That was the question the Guardian asked readers in 1929 when the newspaper launched a…