1960.0000 Purcell's "cereal box"

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During 1960, Edward Purcell of Harvard gave a lecture at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in which he concluded that “all this stuff about travelling round the Universe in space suits, except for local exploration …, belongs back where it came from, on the cereal box”.

 

 

 

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Book References

Text of article reprinted in “Interstellar Communication : A Collection of Reprints and Original Contributions” (1963) (edited by A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 121-143 (in Chapter 13) of the W A Benjamin hardback edition.

For discussion of Purcell’s article see the following:

 

Year

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No. of Pages

1974

Berry, Adrian in his “The Next Ten Thousand Years” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 99 (in Chapter 8) of the Coronet paperback edition.

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1969

Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 37 (in Section 2 “Summary of the Study”, by Edward U Condon) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at page 27 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links:

http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html

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1999

Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 131 (in Chapter 5) of the Wiley softcover edition.

1

1998

Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 213 (in Chapter 7) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

1

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 434 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

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1991

Drake, Frank and Sobel, Dava in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 120-121, 128 (in Chapter 6) of the Pocket Books paperback edition.

3

2008

Friedman, Stanton in his “Flying Saucers and Science : A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 85-87 (in Chapter 2) of the New Page softcover edition.

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1980

Goldsmith, Donald and Owen, Tobias in their “The Search for Life in the Universe” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 370-371 (in Chapter 19) of the Benjamin Cummings softcover edition, at pages 437-438 (in Chapter 18) of the 1992 Addison Wesley softcover revised second edition.

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1982

Hart, Michael in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 3 (in Chapter 1) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. (The relevant chapter is a reprint of Hart, Michael “An Explanation for the Absence of Extraterrestrials on Earth”, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 16 (1975), pages 128-135).

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1989

Mallove, Eugene F and Matloff, Gregory L in their “The Starflight Handbook” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 3, 15 (in Chapter 1) of the Wiley hardback edition.

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1982

Singer, Cliff in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in Chapter 9) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.

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1964

Sullivan, Walter in his “We Are Not Alone” (1964) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 227, 229-232, 234, 237, 241 (in Chapter 16), 274, 276 (in Chapter 16) of the Signet paperback revised editions.

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