European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Stripes daily Magazine to the by Raymond j. Crowley a staff writer president Kennedy beset by such ii problems m Khrushchev. Castro and the reluctant of Many americana to take tax Cut May a mining cosmic bet he is not tuning to on the Wisdom of the Latue Green men. Or Large purple men out there in the Milky Way. For. If the president would install a radio phone to the Cosmos he might get valuable information. Before proceeding further dear Reader. It should be emphasised that this is nut science Helton your perusing. It is solid science attested by curd carrying members of the and . Union. In the first place t is Well known that in our Galaxy of stars nicknamed the Milky Way. There May be goo million planets bearing intelligent life. Authority Prol. Lloyd Motz of Columbia University and other taif second place Many of these Crea Tures a be far brighter than we Are. This seems self evident but in cum of doubt your correspondent has supporting data in his flits thirdly. It seems Likely that these super human creatures May a beaming a very Superior Brand of philosophy and know How to other people in the . At prevent we Are making no serious Effort to tune in. Officials say. Back in i960, during the cosmic minded administration of president Del Gnu a Eisenhower an attempt was made. For total of 190 hours the to foot Antenna at the National radio astronomy Observatory Green Bank. W.va., was focused onto stars Nam a Tau Cetl and Epsilon Erl Donl. These Are the nearest Star Likely to have planets with intelligent life on the results were negative. No intelligent messages were Experiment was under the charge of or Frank d Drake asked the other a in thei Green Bonk is listening in now. Drake turned out to be monosyllabic. No he saw. Asked if he knew of any such project in operation anywhere he said asked Why not. To said for one thing. It is very then Are difficulties to be sure. Like the problem of sep Milns messages from cosmic noise generated by atoms out there. This writer a has never Hod the pleasure of listening to cosmic noise but is reliably informed that it sounds Lik Chicken Bones rattling in a garbage can despite the difficulties the quest for slurry Wisdom. Ii energetically pursued might hit the lock pot rather quickly scientists fee. On the other hand. It might take 100 yours or oven eternity. What is needed is better equipment Titan we have now. This of course would re quire a Large appropriation though nothing like the 20 billion or astronauts journeys to the Moon where they arc no Likely to meet any philosophers. One expert. Or. Ronald n. Nice Well of Stanford University describes he Greenbank Experiment As a rather Hulf hearted Effort with rather poor thesis a shame he feels because an outer space associated press prob ably la transmitting thousands of words per minute today but we Aren t tuned would the folks out there talk to us no matter How advanced they Are to is too much to expect that they can speak a local dialect like English. But this presents no problem. Or Ber Nard m. Oliver has shown. In International science Neil technology they Mihi Send a Cosmos my introducing themselves to us. They met it transmit a series of electro magnetic pulses separated by pauses an human being it All smart could translate the message into a Alclo graph. Pc Medwith information. The pc Zograph which Oliver imagined shows a pupa and Momma biped each seven feet tall with pointed Heads and six fingers on each hand. Between them there is a Small Fry biped strongly resembling them. Study of the picture shows that their Ufa i based on a Carbo hydrate chemistry because Hydrogen Carbon and oxygen atoms Are represented. These folks live on the fourth plane tin their solar system but they know what s on the third planet namely water and fish. This shows they Are space travellers. As Koh president Kennedy. It would do him no Good to address specific queries to the Cosmos like How can we win then yet election 7" the nearest stars Likely to have planets tit for intelligent beings Are 10 to 15 Lightyear Nway. This Means a lapse of 20 to 30 years Between the dispatch of a Mes Sage and receipt of reply. In View of the two term limitation. President Kenned would Long since have been reduced to writing his memoirs. The Point is however that decades or aeons ago the folks out there May have set up a communications peace corps de signed to assist underdeveloped people like us. Their messages packed with Gen Cral Wisdom useful to a statesman maybe reaching Earth right now. Sorry to conclude on a somber note but it must be said that an Aura of greek tragedy broods Over this whole messages we received might be from civilizations Long dead. Suppose that 1.000 Yrnes ago creatures to n Stellar system 1.000 Light years away sent us a message. It stated that every thing was Hunky Dory among them they had even abolished poverty. But shortly after dispatching the Mes Sage these people discovered How to split the atom. Being smart they quickly developed nuclear Energy to its full potential and blew their Plimpt to Smithereens. Monday May 70, 1963 the stars and stripes h
