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...WINTER of 1970, Erich Segal was riding the top of the best-seller list with a novel that was not so much phenomenal literature as it was a literary phenomenon. The book and the movie brought Segal international fame (out selling Sagan in France and Mishima in Japan). It also supplied proportionate hassles. That Yalie reverence, inspired by his association with Yellow Submarine, evolved into cynicism and hostility. It was exacerbated by the cooling of an initially cordial critical reaction. Why didn't they love him more when he was more famous? Segal says, "It was the difference between knowing...
...Cornell Astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, Pioneer's flight into interstellar space is not only a scientific adventure but a rare opportunity. Thus they persuaded NASA to attach a unique plaque to Pioneer's antenna supports. Its purpose: to indicate where the far-ranging robot came from and who its builders were should Pioneer ever be intercepted by extraterrestrial beings...
...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...
...your story "Is There Life on Mars -or Beyond?" [Dec. 13], your writer commented that possibly the civilization that received our message would not bother to reply, and you quoted Astronomer Carl Sagan as saying that they might find men as inferior as men find ants...
...would be willing to bet .that anyone, including Mr. Sagan, would talk back if an ant looked up from the sidewalk and said something...