Article ID: CBB001320837

Searching for Great Adventures (2014)

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Rothman, Tony (Author)


American Scientist
Volume: 102
Pages: 10--13
Publication date: 2014
Language: English


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
Barnhart, Megan Kathleen
Bucchi, Massimiano
Cole, Simon A.
Djerf-Pierre, Monika
Doel, Ronald E.
Journals
Public Understanding of Science
Almagest
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
European Physical Journal H
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
Florida State University
Guaraldi
Johns Hopkins University Press
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Pittsburgh Press
George Washington University
Concepts
Public understanding of science
Science and politics
Communication of scientific ideas
Methods of communication; media
Extraterrestrial life; exobiology
Physics
People
Einstein, Albert
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Brazil
Soviet Union
Denmark
Germany
West Virginia (U.S.)
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Project Apollo (NASA)
Project Voyager
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) (Study group: U.S.)
Federation of American Scientists
West Virginia University
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