Word: interstellar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morrison-Cocconi refuse to concede that their speculations belong to science fiction. "We submit, rather . . . that the presence of interstellar signals is entirely consistent with all we now know, and that if signals are present, the means of detecting them is now at hand . . . We therefore feel that a discriminating search for signals deserves a considerable effort. The probability of success is hard to estimate; but if we never search, the chance of success is zero...
...right-hand man, Stratton engineered an important reform: raising the departments of humanities and social sciences to equal rank with the institute's other professional schools. Today M.I.T.'s curriculum spans the whole range of man's "technology," from politics to psychology, from international relations to interstellar space. "M.I.T. must adapt itself to the needs of a changing epoch," Stratton said last week in his inaugural address. "It must assume new roles and accept new responsibilities." But not at the expense of education, he vowed, and laid out three guidelines for his administration: ¶"We must strive...
...explosion that atomized the planet Doris, the scientist named Mimarobe was seized by the space cadets and thrown into Captain Chefone's dungeon, accused of fouling the radiation apparatus that powered the electronic brain. As presented in Stockholm's Royal Opera House last week, this kind of interstellar meller was meant not for science-fiction escapists but for devotees of avant-garde music. Occasion: the premiere of Swedish Composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl's Aniara, widely hailed as the first operatic excursion into the world of outer space...
When he is not blasting off from this rocket tower of Babel, Author Bradbury is an eerily engaging host at the Interstellar Hilton...
...raising once again the religious question in all its jagged complexity: like Bergman's knight, one finds it equally hard to believe and not to want to believe, as he sees the church's agents light the faggots round the stake, and the smoke disappearing into the vacant interstellar spaces beyond...