Article ID: CBB001320837

Searching for Great Adventures (2014)

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Neil's words could easily have come, with slightly more sobriety, from the lunch-table conversations at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia, where I worked for a few summers in the 1970s and where the discovery of extraterrestrial life was viewed as potentially the most important event in the history of humankind. If they do not wish to stand perpetually shouting for attention from the sidelines, that must change. Because I am a mathematically inclined physicist, my perception of great adventures tends to be biased in that direction, but truly the directions are myriad. Subject Extraterrestrial life; Particle accelerators; Science; Studies; Universe; Earth; Budgets; Moon; Mars

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Authors & Contributors
Macauley, W R
Bruner, Justin P.
Seiko Ishihara-Shineha
Degroot, Dagomar
James Owen Weatherall
Vestergård, Gunver Lystbæk
Concepts
Science and politics
Public understanding of science
Communication of scientific ideas
Methods of communication; media
Science and culture
Science and society
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
Japan
Germany
Denmark
Soviet Union
Brazil
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.)
Federation of American Scientists
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) (Study group: U.S.)
Project Voyager
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