Word: interstellar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance of extraterrestrial discovery is, to be sure, infinitesimally small. As it hurtles through the interstellar void, Pioneer will not approach another star for 10,000 earth years. Even then, it will hardly be a close encounter: there will be a gulf of 3.8 light-years (some 23 trillion miles) between Pioneer and Barnard's star, a small, cool, red celestial object that does not seem to have life-supporting planets. Still, as scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center note, Pioneer should survive indefinitely in the vacuum of interstellar space. The machine may even outlast the solar...
...remote possibility of contacting extraterrestrials palls before a mankind that is alien to itself. Running off to the stars may be far simpler than exploring the black holes of human nature. Percy illustrates this best in a slice of imaginative speculation about four astronauts on an 18-year interstellar flight. The crew, three women and a man, practice "serial monogamy" and procreate. The 186,000-mile-per-second speed law is in effect, so nearly two decades in space amount to more than 400 years on earth. The astrofamily returns to find the home planet ruined by old nuclear wars...
Paul Horowitz, professor of Physics, will launch Harvard's first interstellar communication project early next year, using the University's 84-foot radio telescope, located in Harvard, Mass...
...unearthly batons. The furrows on his brow resemble a music staff, and his body is about the size of a shriveled cello. He can hear the harmony of the spheres, and his rhythm is out of this world. So E.T. seemed to be marching to the beat of an interstellar drummer when he waddled onto the stage of the Hollywood Bowl, in a surprise appearance after Maestro John Williams conducted the theme from E.T. Williams, 50, who composed the score for E. T. as well as for Star Wars, graciously shook hands with the world's most familiar otherworldly...
...Canopeans have achieved a wisdom that transcends this problem, and she initiates a friendship with Klorathy, a senior Canopean administrator, in the hope of prying his secrets away. The job is not easy. He has the habit of answering a question with another question. He is also given to interstellar bromides: "Everything is relative, you know!" After a while, the sessions between these two begin to read like something called Zen and the Art of Empire Maintenance...