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...their central illustration, Sagan and Drake-helped by Sagan's wife, Linda, an artist-chose figures of two representative earthlings (see A in diagram). Their height is indicated by the scale drawing of Pioneer in the background (B). The message contains a more subtle dimensional clue (C) that an extraterrestrial physicist should quickly recognize: an atom of hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, which is shown undergoing a change of energy state (indicated by the different orientations of the orbiting electrons on the circles). During this process, the atom gives off a pulse of radiation with...
Epic Images. Oldenburg has a unique power to perceive things both organically and schematically - even his own face, as in his Symbolic Self-Portrait with Equals, 1969. "The face is a cutout, like a mask, which is past ed on the diagram of objects . . . One side shows the kindly aspect of the art ist; the other, his brutal one. The body is introduced in the image of the face via the representation of the body's juices - the tongue (bringing out the insides) - which doubles as a heart and a foot . . . The ice bag on the head signifies that...
...machine, CERN's planners adopted an ingenious strategy. After being accelerated in the usual way in CERN's 28-BeV synchrotron, protons are deflected with powerful magnets into two large concentric rings. Particles are sent alternately in clockwise and counterclockwise directions in the interlaced vacuum tunnels (see diagram, previous page). The result is two opposing beams of protons, each packing a wallop of 28 BeV, which can meet nearly head-on at eight different points where the rings intersect. In those collisions between protons, both particles can be made to come virtually to a dead stop, making...
...transmit messages? Many scientists have proposed the 21-cm. band, which is the wave length of emissions from the hydrogen atom, the most abundant element in the universe. Another hurdle might well be the choice of a language that would be universally understood by intelligent beings (see diagram, page 56). Also, because man has so recently entered a technological state, any civilization capable of receiving earthly signs might be far more sophisticated. Would it bother to reply? Possibly not, according to Sagan, because the alien race might find men as inferior as men find ants. "Would we bother teaching...
...transmitting race consists of two-legged, two-armed creatures who exist as two different sexes and care for their young. The male figure is pointing to the fourth in a line of eight dots extending directly down from a sunlike circle in the upper left portion of the diagram. Thus it can be assumed that the intelligent race lives on the fourth planet circling the distant star...