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Dates: during 1980-1989
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German Mathematician Karl Gauss assumed that those inhabitants were intelligent. In 1820 he proposed growing a huge wheat field in Siberia in the form of a right triangle, surrounded by pine trees, that could be seen from afar. That would demonstrate to the Martians, Gauss figured, that earthlings not only existed but understood mathematics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Onward to Mars | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

Edward J. Gauss Fairbanks, Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1980 | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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