North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO) Cosmic Search: Issue 11 (Volume 3 Number 3; Summer (July, Aug. Sept.) 1981) [Miscellaneous items found throughout the magazine]

Miscellaneous Items Webpage Table of Contents (Bookmarks) (Internal links to categories of items in this webpage) Information About the Publication (Editorial Board, Editors, Table of Contents) Cosmic Search Awards Coming in the Next Issues Miscellaneous Quotes Miscellaneous Photo Information About the Publication (Editorial Board, Editors, Table of Contents) COSMIC SEARCH - an international, interplanetary, interstellar, intergalactic magazine Editors, and Others Involved in the Publication Editor: John Kraus, Director, Ohio State University Radio Observatory Contributing Editors:    Robert S. Dixon, Ohio State University    Frank D. Drake, Cornell University    Robert H. VanHorn, Bell Telephone Laboratories (retired) Assistants: Alice Kraus, Amahl Drake, Pene Curmode, Hazel Snyder Staff Artist: Jim Arthur Editorial Board Richard Berendzen, President, The American University John Billingham, Director SETI Program, NASA-AMES Research Center Ronald Bracewell, Director, Radio Astronomy Observatory, Stanford University Arthur C. Clarke, Sri Lanka, author of "2001, A Space Odyssey" Norman Cousins, Chairman, Editorial Board, SATURDAY REVIEW Frank D. Drake, Director, National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (Arecibo), Cornell University Donald S. Hall, Director, Strasenburgh Planetarium, Rochester, New York; Past President, International Planetarium Society Theodore M. Hesburgh, President, University of Notre Dame Nikolai Kardashev, Space Research Institute, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR Philip Morrison, Physics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bernard Oliver, Vice President, Hewlett-Packard Company; Director of NASA-Ames Cyclops Project Cyril Ponnamperuma, Director, Laboratory of Chemical Evolution, University of Maryland Martin Rees, Director, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, England Carl Sagan, Director, Laboratory for Planetary Studies, Cornell University Walter Sullivan, Science Editor, New York Times Vasevolod R. Troitsky, Radiophysical Scientific Research Institute, Gorky, USSR Sebastian von Hoerner, National Radio Astronomy Observatory About COSMIC SEARCH COSMIC SEARCH is published quarterly (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall) by Cosmic-Quest, Inc. Copyright © 1981 by Cosmic-Quest, Inc. All rights reserved. Cosmic Quest, Inc., is a non-profit educational-scientific organization. Opinions expressed by persons writing in COSMIC SEARCH are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editorial staff. Subscription price: $10 for 4 issues in U.S. (and possessions), $13 elsewhere. Single copies: $2.50 in U.S. (and possessions), $3 elsewhere. Address subscriptions and all other correspondence to: Radio Observatory, Box 293, Delaware, Ohio 43015. Second-class postage is paid at Delaware, Ohio, and at additional mailing offices. Front Cover Old Planet Earth spins on. North Africa and Saudi Arabia at top with Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Antarctica at bottom. (Photo courtesy of NASA) Table of Contents (in magazine) Contents Pg The Age of the Universe: An Interview with William A. Fowler 4 Toward a Cosmic Brain by Don Lago 6 Space Travel and Life Beyond the Earth by Ernst J. Öpik 10 The Cereal Box Syndrome by Robert A. Freitas, Jr 16 Time and a Cosmic Perspective by Richard Berendzen 22 Features      Donors 2    Editorial 3    College Courses 9    In Review 13    People 12    Perpetual Index 14    Order Blank 15    SEnTInel 8    ABCs of Space 18    Letters 17    COSMIC SEARCH Awards 2 THANK YOU! COSMIC SEARCH expresses sincere thanks to the following donors who are helping to make sure that the story of SETI and mankind's future continue to be told in an interesting and factual way.      Planetary Donors Robert J. Allen, Blythdale, Missouri George Austin, M.D., Loma Linda, Cal. Jane L. Brooks, Adelaide, S. Australia Vera Buescher, Mountain View, Cal. Jack Craig, Oregon City, Oregon William E. Dorion, McLean, Virginia Amahl S. Drake, Ithaca, New York Harry Duke, Los Altos, Cal. Nancy F. Eberbach, Ann Arbor, Mich. Hale P. Faris, San Jose, Cal. B. Fredricksen, White Bear Lake, Minn. Richard and Maria Gauthier, North Bay, Ontario Paul J. Hurn, Seven Mile, Ohio James C. Killman, Sherman, Texas David M. 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On a combination donation-subscription or donation-renewal, the amount over and above the magazine cost is tax deductible. For example, if a donor sends $30 (qualifying as a "Planetary Donor") and includes a two-year subscription at $18, the $12 difference is tax-deductible. Donation categories are as follows:      Planetary: $30 per year      Stellar: $100 per year      Galactic: $500 per year      Cosmic: $1000 per year Contributions, however, will be gratefully accepted in any amount. Checks should be made payable to Cosmic Quest, Inc., P.O. Box 293, Delaware, Ohio 43015. COSMIC SEARCH AWARDS For best papers on SETI Category 1. Undergraduate students Category 2. Graduate students Category 3. Anyone else under 30 years of age Papers may be on any aspect of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Papers must be double-spaced typewritten with one inch margins on 81/z by 11 inch bond paper and less than 2000 words in length. Any illustrations must be clearly executed. 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Coming in the Next Issues • "The First 50 Years of Radio Astronomy, Part 1: Karl Jansky and His Discovery of Radio waves from our Galaxy" by John Kraus, pioneer radio astronomer and Editor of COSMIC SEARCH. Contains many fascinating details not previously publicized. The article commemorates the 50th anniversary of Jonsky's discovery and is the first of a 5 part series of articles. • "Martian Safari" by Dorothy Wills • "Early Radio astronomy" by Grote Reber • "Olber's Paradox" by Robert VanHorn • "Life on Other Stars" by Harlow Shapley • And much more. Don't miss these coming issues. Miscellaneous Quotes The following quotes are not directly associated with any article. The following two quotes were located on the Inside Back Cover.     A Taurus Thesaurus An erudite lady named Morris, Beamed a megawatt message at Taurus. What they actually gets, In short binary sets, Is the full text of Roget's Thesaurus.       W.R.C. Shedenhelm       • The human zest for exploration and discovery is the hallmark of our species and one of the secrets of its success.       Carl Sagan       • The following quote was located on page 3. Planet Earth Spins on While Civilizations Come and Go Our present civilization has reached an advanced stage of development. From the cave-dweller of Olduvai Gorge to Kitty Hawk took millions of years but it was only 66 years from Kitty Hawk to the Moon's Sea of Tranquility. This accelerating pace of technology exemplified by the Space Shuttle can carry us permanently on out into the "New World of Space," a region of vastly greater potential than the "New World" Columbus found five centuries ago. But expediency and failure to look ahead could defeat our chances for advancement. Our civilization teeters on a high, precarious pinnacle that is extremely vulnerable to pollution, resource depletion and nuclear annihilation. Will there be the planning and cooperation needed for our present civilization to survive or will it go the way of civilizations before us? Are there lessons we can learn from those that didn't make it? Curiously, we are both very scientific and at the same time very unscientific. We are an ambivalent society where science has its active counterparts with astrologers outnumbering astronomers and horoscopes outnumbering telescopes. Furthermore, I suspect that most of us are a lot more superstitious than we would care to admit. Seen from afar, Planet Earth is a beautiful, blue jewel, a single globe of wholeness and unity. Although battered by meteors, asteroids and man's depredations, old Planet Earth has durability. It will go spinning on even though civilizations, ours among them, come and go. John Kraus       • The following quote was located on page 21. It Seemed So Much Like the Past It seemed so much like the past. It was all here again, the sights and sounds and excitement made familiar from so many years: the waiting crowds along the highways and the beaches, the metal towers rising beside the sea, the rows of men and consoles at Mission Control, the newsmen and experts explaining, the steady counting down towards zero. It seemed like 1961 and 1962 and 1965, but most of all like a day in July of 1969, for on Pad 39-A stood a spacecraft called Columbia. It seemed so much like the past, but no, a closer look revealed that Neil Armstrong was twelve years older and sitting in the stands, and when the engines fired and a real spaceship leaped into the sky, it seemed so much like the future.       Don Lago Miscellaneous Photo The following photo is not directly associated with any article. The following photo was located on the Inside Back Cover.