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What was it like interviewing the relatives and colleagues of some of these inventors? I talked to the daughter of John Weilgart, who made a "space language" of symbols that he supposedly got from aliens. That was painful in the sense that he devoted his life to this project and he was only ever mocked for it. I didn't want to necessarily contribute to the mocking, so I tried to understand the motivations and the struggle that a person like that would go through...
...dispute pits environmentalists against one another: those who worry more about global warming vs. those who fret more about animal welfare. Lindy Weilgart, a Cornell University expert on whale acoustics, pointed out at hearings before the National Marine Fisheries Service that whales and other marine mammals rely on exquisitely sensitive hearing for hunting, navigating and socializing. Noise pollution from the experiment, she fears, could disrupt the mating and migration patterns of hundreds of thousands of animals. As Weilgart put it, "A deaf whale is a dead whale...
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