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Since that discovery, about two dozen molecules, including carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, ethyl alcohol and water, have been identified in distant space...
Astronomers have even more direct evidence that there are distant, unseen planets. Analyzing a wiggle in the path of Barnard's star, one of the sun's nearest
...pulses that were later presumed to be emanating from a secret U.S. radar experiment. In the mid-1960s, a Russian astronomer detected varying signals from a mysteri ous radio source; Tass breathlessly reported that the signals were a beacon from a supercivilization. The source was later identified as a distant, starlike quasar. When Cambridge Astronomer Anthony Hewish and his assistant Jocelyn Bell in 1967 recorded blips coming from space at precise intervals, they playfully named the sources LGMs (for Little Green Men) on the chance that they had detected the beacon of an advanced civilization. The LGMs were later named...
...might the first intelligence from an extraterrestrial civilization be transmitted to earth? Basing his answer on a concept originally proposed in 1961 by Cornell Astronomer Frank Drake, Electrical Engineer Bernard Oliver composed a sample universal message that could conceivably have been sent from some distant planet. The information would be contained in a series of irregularly spaced pulses picked up by radio telescopes tuned to a wave length of 21 cm. (the natural frequency of radiation from a hydrogen atom and an obvious choice of an advanced civilization). Translated into print, the message would consist of an apparently meaningless sequence...
...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...