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...simple problem: the Quintans do not want to talk. Flying high above the planet, the crew of Hermes can see signs of a highly advanced society. But attempts to communicate are met first with silence and then with hostility; unmanned probes carrying messages of peace are attacked. The earthmen begin to wonder whether the planners of their glorious mission "had invested billions and lifted mountains in order to find a civilization gone berserk...
...Those people who contemplate contacts between earthmen and intelligent beings from other worlds might consider whether the great religious leaders who established the world's major religions were such visitors. Having been revered as "gods from the heavens," they may have given us the main ingredients for the survival and full evolution of our species. All we have to do is implement their philosophies (which are essentially alike) and return their visits...
...made successful spaceflights. "We followed very closely each stage of your flight," it read, "and note with satisfaction the precision of your joint work and your courage, which contributed to the excellent completion of this important experiment. We are confident that the exploration of outer space will greatly benefit earthmen. We congratulate you on a successful step toward this noble goal." In contrast to the terse and often dour notices that have frequently followed U.S. space accomplishments, Tass hailed the Apollo 8 voyage as an "outstanding" success that "opens a new stage in the history of space research." Soviet President...
...Venus. A surface compression of 75 atmospheres is as crushing as the pressure of water 2,550 ft. below the ocean's surface. A temperature of 900° F. is more than enough to melt lead or zinc, or do in any form of life familiar to Earthmen...
Faustian Galaxy. To eliminate this apparent flaw in an otherwise symmetrical universe, Stannard suggests that there is another universe "embed ded in the same space-time framework" as man's-only its time runs backward. Such a "Faustian"* universe, he says, would be unobservable by earthmen because Faustian matter would not in teract with normal matter; it would separate out into planets, solar systems and galaxies...