Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...double star. We live on the sixth planet of seven-check that, the sixth of seven-counting outwards from the sun, which is the larger of the two stars. Our sixth planet has one moon. Our fourth planet has three. Our first and third planet each have one. Our probe is in the orbit of your moon...
...possibility of life elsewhere in the galaxy, he wrote in Nature that an advanced civilization might not necessarily use long-range radio signals to communicate with other intelligent beings. Such signals would be considerably weakened over interstellar distances. Instead, Bracewell said, those far-off beings might employ robot space probes as their message bearers. Sent to a promising nearby star, such a vehicle could swing into an orbit around it at approximately the right distance to encounter a planet with life-supporting temperatures. If it picked up telltale radio signals, the probe might then bounce them back to advertise...
...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 been the space probe's way of saying that Epsilon Boötis was its place of origin...
...only 34 and has never been in private law practice, the fastidious blond attorney from Akron is Counsel to the President of the U.S. Dean is also the White House staffer to whom L. Patrick Gray III handed over the FBI'S files on its Watergate probe. As a result, his name has turned up more than any other in the Judiciary Committee's hearings on Gray, and he is the man whom the Senators most want to question. But the President, invoking the widest possible interpretation of Executive privilege, has said that Dean, or for that matter...
...giving him his doctorate after an absurd display of bogus scholarship. One dotty, dozing old Dickensian expert confuses every fifth or sixth line of dialogue with the title of a Dickens novel, which is fairly hilarious all by itself. Another laugh-bulging scene is a Madison Avenue group-think probe, complete with gestures à la charades, as to why a cleaning company's detergent spray produces mud when a housewife uses...