Word: lilley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur E. Lilley, professor of Astronomy and member of the planning committee, said that the proposed telescope fills a need the U.S. has for a large "dish" of the size maintained by England and Australia...
...Lilley charged the Russians with "un precedented recklessness in assuming that the small amount of evidence they have accumulated demonstrates the presence of a 'super-civilization' in space...
...Until I see the Russian data," Lilley concluded, "I'll not believe they've discovered anything more than a new kind of star. I don't think the Russians have adequately proved that somebody out there is trying to tell us something...
...Russians, if true to form, will "willingly share their data with interested nations, for purposes of verification, but will remain secretive about the kind of equipment they used during their observations," according to Lilley...
...beings might try to communicate with other worlds by simple patterns of powerful radio waves. Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor, won the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery that atomic hydrogen in space radiates signals, allowing scientists to pinpoint the location of the transmitting body. Lilley speculated that Russian astronomers applied Purcell's discovery to their own observations and reasoned that intelligent beings in space with knowledge of radio transmission techniques were trying to tell others of their existence...