Word: outerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Is there "Life on Other Planets"? Until we can see for ourselves, we can only look at the evidence - such as meteorites from outer space that are remarkably earthlike in composition - and speculate, as does Anthropologist Dr. Loren Eiseley, that there are millions of planets as well suited to life as our own. Repeat...
...realm of science fiction and crackpot claims. Discussions of UFOs have begun to appear in the pages of such respected journals as Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Science. A few responsible scientists now put their reputations on the line by suggesting that saucers may be vehicles from outer space. The vast majority of their colleagues still scoff at this notion, but even some of the skeptics concede that serious investigation is needed...
...accepts the reality of vehicles from outer space, one must assume the existence in the universe of a race more intelligent than man-certainly not difficult to believe. (In fact, it is much harder to think that in all the universe man is the only advanced being.) Next, one would have to assume that these intelligent creatures are interested in Earth, and some scientists find this assumption particularly unlikely. "If saucers have been coming here regularly," reasons Astronomer Sagan, "this attaches some peculiar significance to our planet. Let's remember that the earth is in the galactic boondocks...
...unable to write." He proceeds to offer the audience a few alternative opening scenes, none to his own satisfaction. After the first act, his characters assume life and impose their own story upon the author, who finally becomes as much a character in the inner plays as in the outer play...
...Outer Mongolia has practically broken off relations with China in the wake of Red Guard attacks on the Mon golian embassy in Peking protesting a mutual-aid pact signed in January by Ulan Bator and Moscow...