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Word: byurakan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...September, for example, dozens of eminent scientists?including two Nobel laureates?gathered at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Soviet Armenia under the auspices of the Soviet and U.S. Academies of Science to ponder a mind-boggling proposition: Should man try to monitor the messages of other worlds? The answer was a resounding yes. Russian, U.S., Czech. Hungarian and British delegates united to support an unusually cooperative proposal: "It seems to us appropriate that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence should be made by representatives of the whole of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Is There Life on Mars | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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