MixedSignals

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Mixed Signals

Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain

Rebecca Charbonneau 2025 / Bvtn Lib 999 CHA

• p25 n32 Open skies : the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and its impact on US radio Kellerman

• p25 n32 Cosmic Noise by Sullivan

• p25 n32 Making a meal of the big dish: the construction of the Jodrell Bank Mark 1 radio telescope as a stable edifice, 1946–57

• p110 21 cm hydrogen line 1420 MHz

• p111 Cosmic Noise Woodruff Sullivan

• p111 Giuseppe CocconiPhilip MorrisonSearching for Interstellar Communications 19 Sept 1959

• p111 I. S. Shkolovsky CETI the significant field of astronomy

• p113 Shkolovsky awarded Lenin Prize for tracking rockets with luminescent sodium gas

• p114 Universe, Life, Mind

• p120 Bernard Lovell feared Russian brainwashing with radar beam

• p120 Shkolovsky argued with Oparin

• p123 CIA spied on Americans
• p128 Sagan's "Intelligent Life in the Universe" 20,000 copies "in circulation"(?)

• p132 Lightspeed online science fiction magazine

• p139 Fallen Astronaut statue on Moon with list of 8 dead astronauts and 6 dead cosmonauts

• p141 Pioneer Plaque, dashed lines show periods and distances of 14 pulsars from Earth

• p141 contrapposto pose with most of weight on one leg

• p141 line for vagina left out to avoid censorship
• p142 reference to "don't wear any clothes" editorial cartoon, cannot find on internet

• p143 Joe Davis : Poetica Vagina

• p144 United States v. Reidel

• p145 US Great Seal changed in 1956 from "E pluribus unum" to "In God We Trust"

  • p146 p224 n33 Kristeva, Julia Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection 1982

    • abjection: a low or downcast state

• p148 sexist John Findlay admonishes Frank Drake thesis advisor Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin

• p149 Ellen Gundermann Harry Hardebeck

• p150 Frank Drake inspired by administrative assistant Jane Allen to send Aricebo message
• p154 Message pointed at M13 25Kly away, M13 will move off beam before message arrives

• p154 Why Can't We Be Friends? by American band "War"

• p155 Voyager 1 Golden records

• p159 US "Needles and Starfish programs

  • p162 p226 n2 Jones, E. M. 'Where is Everybody?' An Account of Fermi's Question." NASA 1985

• p166 Otto Struve

• p167 Drake Equation

• p168 1971 US-USSR CETI Conference

• p170 Francis Crick 1973 Directed Panspermia

• p171 How Not to Network a Nation 2015 Benjamin Peters

• p171 Zeeman Effect

• p172 CETI telescope on Israel/Egypt border

• p173 William McNeill The Rise of the West 1963

• p176 Yuri Pariiskii detects ET, actually Big Bird spysat

• p185 introspection hinders expansive thought about the variety of civilization in the universe

• p185 Michael Hart 1975

• p187 pollution SETI - no useful referrence
• p187 "Conflict between AI and humans" ... silly, both not needed for interstellar expansion

• p188 Billions and Billions 500 SAGAN 1997

• "... pick the right anxieties. Somewhere between the cheerful dolts and the nervous worrywarts there's a state of mind we ought to embrace."

• p190 Herring, not submarines

• p191 p230 n5 How A Science Experiment Led to Sexual Encounters Between a Woman and a Dolphin

  • Margaret Howe Lovatt

• p192 The Dolphin Who Learned to Speak Saturday Night Live

• p193 nothing seen in 30 years, US defunding SETI in 1994

• p196 Schelling Points solution chosen in absence of communication to avoid coordination failure

• p197 KRT-10 1979 space telescope on Salyut 6

• p198 RadioAstron Russian satellite radio telescope for long baseline interferometry

• p199 KRT-10 may have been used for tracking ships
• p200 Soviet military explicitly restricted science, "implicit" in US

• p201 Leonid Gurvits you cannot imagine how difficult it was from this side

• p203 1970s Berkeley visit, Shklovsky buys "Pray for Sex" button. "in your country, it is offensive in only one way. In my country, it is offensive in two independent ways."