Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Being aware of the distinction between evidence and subjective interpretation when I drew my my first apparent-star map, I would hope to have kept it in mind throughout. As I pointed out in my paper, only a search for the hypothetical probe can settle the questions raided by my interpretation-and the interpretation has aroused such interest that a search is to be undertaken...
...scars now remain in Kalkilya of that blistering June day in 1967 when Israel almost wiped it off the map. The old frontier is a rusting jumble of barbed wire and garbage, and the village has the same sleepy, slightly disheveled air that it had before. Men wearing the keffiyeh, the traditional black and white checkered headdress, sit around in circles drinking muddy Turkish coffee and playing shesh-besh (backgammon). The muezzin of the large Moslem mosque snoozes on a straw mat, waking periodically to give the wailing call to prayer...
...directly involved on either side. Though the U.S. traditionally supplies arms to the Philippines, it has not increased its aid because of the rebellion. As for the insurgents, there is some evidence that their weapons are smuggled in by speedboats from the Malaysian state of Sabah (see map page 37), and that faraway Libya stands ready to finance fellow Moslems. But there has been no overt intervention, so far, on their behalf...
...delayed. The other axis indicated the position of each echo in the sequence of echoes. Plotting the points determined by those coordinates yielded no recognizable pattern. But when Lunan reversed the axes, he got a striking result: a collection of dots that looked to him like a sky map of the constellation Boötis (pronounced boh-oh-tis). Only the star Epsilon Boötis (actually a double star system whose members are popularly called Izar and Pucherrima) was significantly out of place. But Lunan had a ready explanation for that displacement. He says that it may well have...
...side in roughly the place it occupied 13,000 years ago. For this too Lunan had a theory: that was the time when the probe arrived in the earth's vicinity and instructed its onboard equipment to scan the skies and draw up the star map. Lunan even speculates about the intelligent race that dispatched the probe: because their sun has now expanded into a hot ball of fire called an orange giant, they were not merely seeking contact with other creatures, but were actively looking for a new planetary home in more favorable surroundings...