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Hasty Pudding Institute, Pi Eta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and the Freshman Class will run their social events as scheduled. The fate of a dance planned by the Harvard Band has not definitely been decided...
Harvard's chapter of the National Honor Society in Economics, Omicron Chi Epsilon, has elected Leonard Kopelman '63 of Leverett House and Brookline, its President...
...understood by earthlings? Purcell suggests that a simple on-off signal will be easiest to detect, and is most likely to be sent. But he speculates that many messages of varying difficulty may be sent simultaneously, which is not hard to do. Aliens on a planet of Epsilon Eridani, a likely star, will not expect to get an answer from the solar system in less than 22 years. But by sending simultaneous messages, they can educate their earthside listeners quickly. Besides simple number series, says Purcell, the messages will probably contain other mathematical relationships. Words and logical concepts...
...planet revolving around the star Epsilon Eridani there may be a radio antenna several times as big as a baseball stadium. From it toward other planets revolving around other stars may go messages proclaiming the existence of a high civilization in the Epsilon Eridani system. The Earth may be one of the planets toward which such messages are beamed...
...National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va., who this week launched an effort called Project Ozma-after the Princess in Author L. Frank Baum's strange and faraway Land of Oz. In Project Ozma, Green Bank's 85-ft. radio telescope is turned toward Epsilon Eridani and another star, Tau Ceti, both of them about eleven light years (66 trillion miles) away. Tuned to the 21-centimeter waves (1,420 megacycles) that come from cold hydrogen in interstellar space, the telescope is so set up that it points for a short time at the target star...