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Lecturing last week at M.I.T., Dr. Otto Struve, director of the new National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va., announced a project that aims to bring earthlings out of their isolation. Starting New Year's Day or soon thereafter. Green Bank will point the observatory's 85-ft. parabolic reflector antenna at the most likely stars, listen for radio signals from planets around them...
About Face. Then came the committee's ammunition. First, by letter (at Carl Vinson's invitation) arrived the anti-reorganization opinions of Washington Lawyer H. Struve Hensel, 56, onetime (1944) Navy Department general counsel, onetime (1945-46) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for material procurement, longtime Navy-oriented opponent of military unification. Hensel's point: the new proposals would veer U.S. military organization 180°, from a Joint Chiefs setup geared to planning to an area concerned wholly with command. "The chairman [of the Joint Chiefs would] be the only adequately informed top official; the civilian heads...
Your Science article "Life on a Billion Planets" [March 3], is plain horse sense. Who the hell are we (on this planet) to believe we are the only humans in all the cosmic world? Astronomer Struve says: "It is perfectly conceivable that some intelligent race meddled once too often with nuclear laws and blew themselves to bits." This is just about what may hit us-if we keep monkeying around with nuclear fission...
...Bridge. Struve is asked why the inhabitants of distant planets, some of whom must be higher in the evolutionary scale than humans are, have never visited the earth or communicated with it. He replies that there may be a limit to the degree of intelligence that life can attain. This limit may make it impossible for the wisest inhabitants of the galaxy to bridge the enormous distances between planetary systems...
...limit of intelligence may show itself, says Astronomer Struve, in another and more spectacular way. Every few hundred years, throughout the galaxy, a supernova (exploding star) blows up with a mighty detonation. Astronomers generally credit these events to natural causes. But, says Struve, "it is perfectly conceivable that some intelligent race meddled once too often with nuclear laws and blew themselves to bits." When astronomers on the earth are able to observe such explosions with sufficient accuracy, they'may be able to determine which ones were natural and which were caused by beings that grew too intelligent for their...