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Those of us fortunate to be cosmic researchers at this point in the history of earth civilization find ourselves immersed in an intense period of exploration, a slackening of which is not yet foreseen. Our descendents may well look back on the last half of the 20th century as the golden age of astrophysics. Or will they...
DIED. Immanuel Velikovsky, 84, Russian-born psychoanalyst and iconoclastic author, whose unorthodox theories of cosmic evolution, published in 1950 as Worlds in Collision, outraged scientists; in Princeton, N.J. Combining a vast knowledge of biblical and mythological lore with his study of Freud's analysis of the subconscious mind of Moses, Velikovsky developed a controversial theory of colliding planets. He contended-in total violation of the laws of celestial mechanics-that a fragment from the planet Jupiter brushed by earth in 1500 B.C. before settling into orbit as the planet Venus. The cataclysmic encounter, he claimed, caused hurricanes and floods...
After many Edenic millenniums an "unfortunate cosmic pattern" breaks this lock and introduces cacophony and dissonance into the new world. Almost immediately the inhabitants display symptoms of the "Degenerative Disease," a bellicose assertion of ego against the grain of the common good. Life-spans, which had stretched to a thousand years, begin shrinking dramatically; natural fulfillment is replaced by restless desires and dissatisfactions. The Canopean overseers sadly change Rohanda's name to Shikasta, "the hurt, the damaged, the wounded one." The period of earth's recorded history is about to begin...
...possibility of extraterrestrial life is the cause to which Sagan has dedicated much of his life. His earlier book The Cosmic Connection, treats this exclusively. When scientists examining the samples brought back to earth by Apollo found no signs of life, Sagan proclaimed to their collective infuriation that the moon was "dull." This polemic grates in the course of Broca's Brain. It pops up in almost every chapter, tied tortuously to whichever theme is central at the time. Sagan ought to have called his first book "Why I Think There's Life on Other Planets" and been done with...
Social Analysis 10 (formerly Economics 10) has 1053 students, according to preliminary enrollment figures based on the study cards turned in last week. The next largest courses are Natural Sciences 110, "Automatic Computing" with 717 students and Astronomy 8, "Cosmic Evolution", with 481, Douglass S. Gardner '57, associate registrar of the Faculty said yesterday...