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From: rbg@cbosgd.UUCP (Richard Goldschmidt)
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Subject: Re: StarDate: March 7 Project Sentinel's Anniversary (SETI)
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 16:26:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 14 16:26:11 1985
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> > I ask
> > because it occurs to me that frequencies such as "the radiation frequency
> > of neutral hydrogen atoms", while attractive as a physical constant,
> > seem to me to be as unlikely for use in everday communications by an
> > "extra-terrestrial" as they are here on earth.
> 
For another source of info on interstellar communication see an article
in Science 196: 616-621, May 6, 1977 "Searching for Extraterrestrial
Civilizations,"  by Kuiper and Morris at JPL. It discusses some of the 
assumptions involved in devising a strategy.
-- 
Rich Goldschmidt     {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax,allegra,ulysses} !cbosgd!rbg
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