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...searching for giant saucers in the sky or some Twilight Zone-style phenomena. Instead, they’re hoping to identify extraterrestrial communication, in the form of light flashes from distant civilizations. But don’t look for ET and his friends to phone home any time soon. Bruce Betts, director of projects at the Planetary Society, the NGO funding the telescope, says, “I think it is realistic, but this is a gigantic haystack and we’re looking for a needle.” Betts admits that the project is based on several assumptions...
...certainty—that there’s other life in our galaxy,” Horowitz said yesterday. “There’s a pretty good likelihood that much of that life has evolved to a technological state.” According to Bruce Betts, the Planetary Society’s director of projects, aliens who are only as technologically advanced as we are could be sending brief optical signals across the galaxy. “With Earth technology 2006, we can transmit pulse lasers that outshine the sun by a factor...
Research for the project was made possible by funding from Harvard’s Green Fund, administered by evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson, and the National Science Foundation. In addition to Moreau, researchers on the study also included Roger Vila and S. Bruce Archibald from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well Hessel Professor of Biology Naomi E. Pierce. Charles D. Bell from Florida State University was also a member of the research team...
...following half hour. In said towel, Hartnett will be kidnapped by two warring crime bosses who think he’s someone else, get involved in a series of elaborate assassination plots, and flirt wittily with his next-door neighbor played by Lucy Liu. Every once in a while, Bruce Willis drops in to murder somebody with a pouty face...
Despite the constant presence of dead children and Morgan Freeman, everything about this movie is snappy. The names, for example, are exceedingly snappy. Bruce Willis goes by the candy-bar handle of Mr. Goodkat, and Freeman and Ben Kingsley are, respectively, The Boss and The Rabbi. The dialogue is even snappier: almost every question asked in this movie is answered with a snarky rewording of that question. (Examples: “Why do they call him The Rabbi?” “Because he’s a rabbi.”—Repeat 400 times...