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Are We Alone? SETI Listens for Answer; In Four Decades, Astronomers Have Found 100 Planets, but No Space Aliens
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After four decades of frequent ridicule, astronomers seeking signs
of life in the heavens are gaining respect. Since 1960, when Frank
Drake first pointed a radio telescope at a pair of nearby stars in
hope of dialing in an alien broadcast, there have been about 100
searches for extraterrestrial signals.
But no space aliens.
Instead, the astronomers have located more than 100 planets
outside our solar system since the first was discovered in 1995.
Whether those distant worlds teem with life, much less intelligent
life, remains unknown. But each new discovery further energizes SETI,
the Search ...
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L'epuisant desir de ces choses.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; ...words. In the second epigraph the splendid poet and art critic Yves Bonnefoy notes how Poussin, Titian, and Pietro Berrettini da Cortona (called Cortone in French) would have liked to reproduce the world in their paintings, only to be caught...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...clarinettist and bandleader, 1913; Liberace (Wladsiu Valentino), pianist and entertainer, 1919; Deaths: Pietro da Cortona (Berrettini), painter and architect, 1669; Charles Perrault, author and fairy-tale writer, 1703; Button Gwinnett...
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