Summaries for Readings due September 10

The article "Searching for Interstellar Communications" by Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison discusses what radio frequencies we should use in order to communicate interstellar. On these frequencies, the authors think we should include prime numbers or other simple mathematical patterns. It also talks about how we would receive an answer. According to this article, it would years to receive an answer since stars are light years away.

"What It Was Like Before Ozma" by Louis Berman includes many of the historic scientists we talked about in class such as Karl Gauss, Joseph von Littrow, and Charles Cros and their ideas of showing other intelligence that we occupy Earth.  Most of the ideas sound ridiculous today. The person I found most interesting in this article was Grote Reber who built a huge radio dish in his backyard in hopes of communicating with other intelligence.