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| | If Other Worlds Are Calling Us / Unusual observatory being set up in Shasta County to listen for signals from distant ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Skeptics who insist SETI is a foolish dream like to recall the world- wide excitement that greeted a 1964 announcement by Jocelyn Bell, a young British radio astronomer at Cambridge University, that she had detected four different signals from mysterious objects, perhaps on far- off planets. |
 | | Her senior colleagues, astronomers Sir Martin Ryle and Anthony Newish, half-seriously dubbed the four unknown radio sources as LGM 1, 2, 3 and 4, and cheerfully agreed that LGM stood for ``little green men.'' |
 | | But mystics, UFO believers and even some scientists heralded the announcement, saying that the regular pulses of radiation couldn't be attributed to any known astronomical phenomenon and so must be extraterrestrial messages. |
| www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/02/14/MN100471.DTL (1383 words) |
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