European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes May daily Magazine today crossword eavesdroppers listen for cosmic hello All recognize its a Long shot by William Broad new York times for a Quarter Century Frank Drake has searched for clues that humans Are not Drake is one of a Small band of Earth Lings devoted to the search for extraterrestrial known by those who do it As he and his Brethren scan the heavens with huge dish shaped listening for signals from advanced at times these cosmic eavesdroppers speak candidly about the aliens they seek and How they plan to react if Contact is made but it takes they Are wary of being dismissed As Cranks or they pain fully recall the occasion in 1978 when William gave them a Golden fleece award for what he said was their waste of Federal they also wince at the theorizing of jungian who say that belief in aliens is fostered by a deep human need for Messiah in spite of the their search has even mainly because of support by influential physicists and the Field is now dotted with Nobel laureates and other this month Marks the 25th anniversary of the first systematic search for extraterrestrial the Hope of these sober specialists is their fear is that technological which they Are sure have flourished for May destroy themselves by War May have already destroyed themselves before Contact can be a radio astronomer with impeccable Drake was the first to conduct a systematic his 1960 named ozma after the Princess in the books about used an 85foot Antenna at the National radio astronomy Observatory in Green to scan the a Quarter of a Century and Many searches he still brims with the Broad consensus is that theres a great Deal of intelligent life out said once a radio astronomer at Cornell University and now a Dean at the University of California at Santa the typical guess is that there Are to advanced civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy his optimism is based mainly on raw there being some 400 billion stars in our others Are less i started thinking about this roughly at the age of Drake you learn a Little about the world and suddenly discover that there Are other coun tries and you learn a Little about astronomy and find out that even Earth is not i realized there might be other forms of life As although Drake said his wife and family shared his he noted that of his five none of the older ones have pursued his they think astronomers work too he they Are project ozma was a Magnet for All sorts of individuals interested in not just radio one was the Theodore president of notre Dame who travelled to the Hills of West Virginia to join project saying his daily mass on a makeshift another was Bernard vice presi Dent for research and development at on a Cloudy morning in 1961 he flew a Light plane in search of Drake and his radio As Oliver de scribed the Clouds parted to reveal the great Antenna and a place to we tend to be Oliver we All recognize its a Long but the consequences of Contact would be it would answer one of the oldest questions in the and if we succeed in making it will probably be with a Lon lived we might learn a Oliver retired from Hewlett Packard in 1981 and might have lounged around his swimming he became head of the governments Seti which is entered at the National aeronautics and space administrations Ames facility in with million a year a Small sum As astronomy projects go Oliver and his colleagues Are designing an advanced system to automatically scan 10 million radio frequencies in search of alien one of the Kent has been Blind since instead of watching television while growing he listened to his shortwave i listened to those Distant signals from around the he when i realized that some of those signals came from the that was i look for the most Distant do i can new York times photo Frank Drake conducted the first systematic search for intelligence beyond making some of those but we 1   in by 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