(Phenomena::No Place Like Home) – Nadia Drake:
Named after a character in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, Project Ozma was the first scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligent life. From April to July, 1960, astronomers in Green Bank, West Virginia monitored two nearby, sun-like stars for artificial radio signals – signs that an interstellar intelligence inhabited Earth’s starry skies, that humans were not adrift in an incessantly quiet cosmic ocean.
The entire endeavor cost $2,000. …
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