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...Hello out there-Earth, can you read us?" Silence. There may not be anyone to receive a return message from Messier 13 unless something is done to halt the present ecological holocaust...
...population and the double helix of the heredity molecule DNA. The signal was transmitted last week by a team of U.S. scientists from the giant radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a vast antenna 1,000 ft. in diameter lining a natural bowl formed by hills. The target was Messier 13, a cluster of some 300,000 stars located on the remote fringe of the Milky Way. Addressed simply to "Occupants" of any planets that may be orbiting Messier 13's stars, the message, even traveling as it does at the speed of light (186,000 miles...
...Frank are hired by a limp-wristed shyster to locate his girl friend. "A switch-hitting sweet lips?" Boggs inquires skeptically, but he doesn't press the matter. He and Hickey need the $200 a day. The investigation becomes progressively messier, involving counterfeiters, fences, torpedoes and other citizens of the Southern California underworld...
Less than three years later they split up in one of Hollywood's messier divorces, with Dyan charging that Grant was a weekly LSD tripper who beat her in front of the servants and tried to "remake" her. "He changed the way I wore my hair, my makeup, my speech and my clothes," she says. "If I hadn't divorced him, I'd be dead...
...stands for object No. 82 in the catalogue of nebulae, galaxies and clusters of stars started by the 18th century French astronomer Charles Messier. NGC 253 means object No. 253 in the New General Catalogue...