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Still, a cynical voice inside me suspects Clinton is no pioneer: Politicians have been refining the techniques he uses since before there were politics...
Benjamin M. Hammond '89, a musician, songwriter and pioneer in acoustics, died suddenly in his sleep Oct. 27 from cardiac symptoms...
That is melancholy news not only for Wirth and other members of the Pioneer team but also for astronomer Frank Drake and his crew at the nearby Mountain View headquarters of seti. There, scientists hoping to pick up radio signals from a distant civilization have been using Pioneer's signals to test the efficacy of their detection systems. Says Drake: "It's been our prime diagnostic tool...
...even a silent Pioneer 10 may someday effect a kind of communication with extraterrestrials. Attached to one of the spacecraft's antenna support struts is a plaque, designed by Drake and astronomer Carl Sagan, that is inscribed with symbols, binary numbers and drawings conveying what they hope is a universally understandable message. It locates the solar system, shows that Pioneer was launched from Earth and portrays a terrestrial man and woman...
...plaque is one day recovered by advanced extraterrestrials, however, it is unlikely that any of us will be around to receive their reply. At Pioneer's current cruising speed, even if the spacecraft were headed directly toward the closest star, Proxima Centauri, and any possible nearby residents, it would not arrive for some 100,000 years...