Word: earthmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Orgasm Drug to draw him into fatal orgies; 2) the totalitarian of the Crab Galaxy, who have ready giant ovens to bake humans into insectlike critters in a hivelike commune; and 3) the plain old hophead gods of Uranus, who have become radioactive themselves and are plotting to frizzle Earthmen with their own radioactivity...
Obviously, the signal demanded an answer, and the thoughtful Cygnians labored mightily over their reply. They hoped that earthmen would understand it, since they were sending it back by laser beam. But they were wrong...