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...books). He "looked" briefly at several nearby sunlike stars in the hope that they might be orbited by planets whose inhabitants were sending out intelligible signals, like the flood of radio and TV broadcasts we've been inadvertently blasting into space for the past 80 years. ("Hey there, Alpha Centauri! Whaddya think of The Honeymooners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Meet E.T.? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...Phantom Menace. Gamemakers are starting to pull in big names. James Earl Jones, for example, stars in Command & Conquer's latest outing, while David Bowie is the driving force behind the forthcoming Omikron. Indeed, game designers are starting to act like directors--guys like Sid Meier (Alpha Centauri) and Adrian Smith (Tomb Raider) who closet themselves in high-end studios for two years at a time, ceaselessly fine-tuning their grand vision, their masterwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1999 Technology Buyer's Guide: Games Enter the Mainstream | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...themselves, or delegate these tasks to a better-trained corp of omnivorous, rock-eating arthropods from the planet Grock? Please be prepared to comment on these case questions during the informational session, where you will meet employees recently graduated from such schools as Harvard, MIT, Dartmouth and the Alpha-Centauri Mutant Teachers' College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: from the circular file Of OCS | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...nebula is so vast that scientists measure it in light years, estimating its diameter at four light years, the distance from the sun to Alpha Centauri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEDNESDAY: The Universe's Big Gun | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

...plaque is one day recovered by advanced extraterrestrials, however, it is unlikely that any of us will be around to receive their reply. At Pioneer's current cruising speed, even if the spacecraft were headed directly toward the closest star, Proxima Centauri, and any possible nearby residents, it would not arrive for some 100,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STILL TICKING | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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