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...Hoerner's suggestion [Dec. 29] that we be listening for radioed advice from older civilizations out in space in order to avoid self-annihilation is intriguing...
...advice to Von Hoerner is to have him set aside his red-hot mathematical pencil. His longed for advice has arrived. In fact, it came a little over 1,900 years ago-loud and clear. Illiterate shepherds on Judean hills understood. A physician by the name of Luke decoded the message...
...doubt somewhere in Von Hoerner's library he will find a dust-covered copy of this message from outer space. The advice and directions for preventing human self-destruction are there in black and white. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear (Matthew...
Other planets, reasons Von Hoerner, almost certainly have been through cycles of self-destruction, and would have some thing to say about their experience. On such planets, science and technology were probably encouraged by a fight for supremacy and a desire for an easy life. In many cases, says the astronomer, scientific warfare surely brought destruction, or the soft life made possible by technology led to physical or mental degeneration. As a result, some extraterrestrial civilizations may have destroyed themselves completely, while others killed off only the higher types of life, permitting new and later civilizations to evolve from...
...Hoerner believes that the earth's young civilization is now approaching its fast great crisis because of its newfound powers of self-destruction. He feels that man's best hope of avoiding disaster is to listen hard for radioed advice. Far out in starry space, perhaps, is an old, wise civilization that has survived many crises and is trying to warn the callow earth against the mistakes of its own youth...