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...serious young Scottish science writer and part-time astronomer named Duncan A. Lunan, they may well be true. Writing in Spaceflight, a publication of the British Interplanetary Society, Lunan, 27, says that the words are his translation of a message that may have been relayed to earth by a robot spacecraft from a highly advanced civilization far beyond the solar system. More astonishing, Lunan adds, the automatic vehicle may have been circling the moon for thousands of years, waiting patiently for earthlings to acquire the necessary know-how to contact...
...about the 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...
...look at a member of your family and realize that she spends her life in a dank, condemned warehouse with no gainful employment, begging for food and clothing, studying the Bible by day and witnessing for Christ by night. She is no longer my sister but unwittingly the robot of a group of glory-seeking, money-oriented religious fanatics...
...kind of player Wooden believes in is part robot and part race horse. Wooden maps out each practice session on a 3-by-5 card, devoting five or ten minutes each to such basics as rebounding, corner shooting and three-man fast breaks. Always on the sidelines, Wooden spurs his charges on with his favorite rallying cry: "Be quick, but don't hurry!" Says he: "The game of basketball is scoring goals, and I want my boys to shoot and shoot. When a boy tells me he'd rather pass than shoot, I know there's something...
Nearly 200 Ibs. heavier than Lunokhod 1, which it closely resembles, the remarkable machine is apparently equipped with sophisticated gear to analyze the soil that it picks up. In addition, the robot carries a cosmic-ray counter, a "telescope" that can look for distant X-ray sources in the heavens and a French-built laser reflector, which -like similar reflectors left behind by Apollo-should enable scientists to measure the distance between earth and moon with extreme accuracy...