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 .p81 re. Voyager disks, Hawking said we are simply not evolved enough to make contact.

Interstellar Age

Jim Bell, Penguin/Dutton 2015, Tigard Library 629.43 BEL

  • p46 In 1965, Caltech Gary Flandro invented "Grand Tour", little credit until 1998 NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal

    • You have to learn not to be discouraged by experts

  • p68 11,000 work-years devoted to Voyager, 1/3 of the labor force for the Great Pyramid at Giza for King Cheops

    • C. Kohlhase The Voyager Neptume Travel Guide, JPL Publication 89-24 page 135

    • $865M, 5 trillion bits, Deep space network antenna captures 1e-16 W
    • Pub89-24 p104: 1961, gravity assist invented by 25 yo Michael A. Minovitch, mathematician grad student at JPL, 1962, Grand Tour, 1964 Max Hunter writes about it, 1965 Flandro works out details.
  • p81 re. Voyager disks, Hawking said we are simply not evolved enough to make contact.

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