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...Rosie the Riveter a figure of folklore, and many women never before in the work force found that they liked the independence gained by working. The postwar reaction was the "togetherness" syndrome of the Eisenhower era, a doomed attempt to confer on suburban motherhood something of the esteem that pioneer women once enjoyed. From the affluent housewife's suicidal despair in J.D. Salinger's "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," it was not far to The Feminine Mystique...
...touch the week-end hedonists who could afford to buy the book. Now it's clear that Bradley Smith, producer of this monstrosity, has an official pipeline to Hugh Hefner. But the blurb on the jacket makes clear that Smith is conspiring to make Miller into a pioneer bunnyman...
...their central illustration, Sagan and Drake-helped by Sagan's wife, Linda, an artist-chose figures of two representative earthlings (see A in diagram). Their height is indicated by the scale drawing of Pioneer in the background (B). The message contains a more subtle dimensional clue (C) that an extraterrestrial physicist should quickly recognize: an atom of hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, which is shown undergoing a change of energy state (indicated by the different orientations of the orbiting electrons on the circles). During this process, the atom gives off a pulse of radiation with...
...indicates the distance of their star to the center of the galaxy. That information should tell extraterrestrial scientists even a million years from now when and from where the spacecraft was launched. For specific details, they can look at a representation of the solar system (G). It shows that Pioneer left from the third planet from the sun (lower left), swept past the fifth (Jupiter) and then veered off into interstellar space...
...know if the message will ever be found or decoded," the Sagans and Drake write in Science. "But its inclusion on the Pioneer spacecraft seems to us a hopeful symbol of a vigorous civilization on earth...