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Title:Psychic Phenomena
Notice:Please read note 1.0-1.* before writing
Moderator:JARETH::PAINTER
Created:Wed Jan 22 1986
Last Modified:Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2143
Total number of notes:41773

243.0. "TV show on extra-terrestrail life" by JAKE::KARWAN (Rav Karwan/Shrewsbury) Mon Nov 17 1986 19:54

    Thought you would like to know.

    Public Broadcasting Systems's NOVA program for this Tuesday (11/18/86)
    is going to be about search for extra-terrestrial life (I forget the
    show title). It airs at 8 PM here at WBZ channel 2 (Boston) and, I
    beleive, is shown nation wide.

    Hope it is interesting.

   -- Rav Karwan
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243.1MANTIS::PARETue Nov 18 1986 12:402
    Thank you Rav.  I'll be watching.
    mary
243.2NOVA, STAY SERIOUSEDEN::KLAESWelcome to Olympus, Captain Kirk!Tue Nov 18 1986 14:2614
    	I hope NOVA is taking this issue seriously.  I do not like the
    fact that Lily Tomlin is hosting part of this show (see this week's
    TV GUIDE).  NOVA usually makes their shows very interesting and
    educational on the merits of the scientific topic alone, not through
    flashy gimmicks like many network science programs are.
    
    	We are on the verge of dicovering planets in other solar systems,
    and I have no doubt that alien life will be found not too long after
    this; and especially since this discovery would have profound affects
    on human society, it should be prepared for properly and taken
    seriously.
         
    	Larry
    
243.3FOR A TRANSCRIPT OF THIS PROGRAM...EDEN::KLAESIs anybody out there?Wed Nov 19 1986 15:1516
    	If you don't have a VCR (like me, sob!), you can get a transcript
    of the NOVA program by sending a check for four dollars ($4) to
    this address:
    
    			NOVA
    			Is Anybody Out There?
    			Box 322
    			Boston, MA  02134
    
    	It was an excellent program, and Lily Tomlin did a very good,
    intelligent, and sometimes funny narration.  It will be on again
    (for those in the Boston area) on Channel 2, WGBH, on Saturday,
    November 24, at 2 p.m.
    
    	Larry
    
243.4Quite the FeatVAXUUM::DYERAiigh!!!Thu Jan 29 1987 13:053
I didn't see the program, but perhaps Lily Tomlin was narrator because of her
 Search for Signs of Intelligent Life on This Planet?
  <_Jym_>
243.5RE 243.4EDEN::KLAESThe lonely silver rain.Thu Jan 29 1987 13:299
    	Yes, that is exactly why - to help catch the general public's
    interest in that particular NOVA program.  I guess they figured
    Lily Tomlin is an "Earthly" enough "link" for the public to grasp
    the concept of extraterrestrial life (you'd think after all the
    years of growing speculation and E.T.-type movies, the public would
    be more comfortable with such a subject).
    
    	Larry
    
243.6NOVA rebroadcastEDEN::KLAESPatience, and shuffle the cards.Mon Apr 13 1987 14:576
    	The NOVA program on intelligent life in the Universe, entitled
    "Is Anybody Out There?", will be rebroadcast on April 14 at 8 pm
    on Boston's Channel 2 (WGBH-PBS).
    
    	Larry
    
243.7SETI Lecture at JPLDICKNS::KLAESAngels in the Architecture.Tue Sep 22 1987 15:3035
From: Rogers@VENERA.ISI.EDU (Craig Milo Rogers)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Etc.
Date: 13 Sep 87 22:19:59 GMT
    
	  Dr. Thomas McDonough will present a lecture on the
     Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) at
     7:00 PM on Saturday, September 26th, in the Von Karmen
     Auditorium at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak
     Grove Drive in Pasadena.  SETI is a world-wide
     astronomical research program which checks signals
     from distant stars for signs of purposeful communication.
 
          Dr. McDonough is a Lecturer in Engineering at Caltech,
     and is Coordinator of the SETI program of the Planetary
     Society.  He is active as a lecturer, science consultant,
     and author, with two popular science books on space and a
     science fiction novel published this year ("The Search for
     Extraterrestrial Intelligence", "Space:  The Next 25 Years",
     and "The Architects of Hyperspace", respectively).
 
          This lecture is one of many activities sponsored by
     the Organization for the Advancement of Space
     Industrialization and Settlement (OASIS).  The organization
     is a non-profit educational group which promotes space
     development.  It is the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the
     National Space Society (NSS).
 
          The public is invited; there is no admission charge.
     For more information about this lecture or other OASIS
     activities call the OASIS Message Machine at (213) 374-1381
     or contact Craig Milo Rogers <Rogers@ISI.Edu> (ARPANet).
 
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