University Daily Kansan
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Friday, April 20. 1962
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Life Must Be Out There
By Joseph L. Myler United Press International
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— A couple of scientists were swapping answers for questions with some congressmen the other day. The gist of what they said was:
"Sure there's life on other worlds. Bound to be. Silly to think there isn't. Must be millions, if not billions, of such worlds in the universe. Some life somewhere out there may well be smarter than earth's."
The news in this, if any, is that nobody laughed. Nobody snorted. Nobody threatened to ride the two scientists out of town on a rail.
A few decades ago it would have been daring to voice in public the notion that the earth was not the sole abode of intelligent beings. Scientists as well as theologians might have taken issue with you.
Now neither is surprised or afronted. Well established modern theory of how stars are formed makes it impossible not to believe that habitable planets must be exceedingly common.
THE UNIVERSE is incomprehensibly vast. The Milky Way galaxy, the spiral assemblage of stars and star
dust of which the earth is an infinitesimal part, contains upward of 100 billion suns.
Outside the Milky Way are billions upon billions of other galaxies, each with its billions of individual stars.
As Dr. Su-Shu Huang of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) says, "intelligent life is probably not a rare phenomenon."
Astronomers and biophysicists feel the universe is populated with living creatures, many of them more advanced technologically than human beings.
THE LAWS of nature being what they are, there must be planets in other solar systems. And some of them, at least, must harbor life. But nobody on earth has yet seen a planet in the reaches of space beyond the sun.
The light of a star coming through the atmosphere is distracted and spread about. The far feebler reflected light of a planet would be swamped by the effulgence of its parent star.
So there is no hope of actually seeing the pinpoints of light from planets until observatories can be set
Vox
Vox has, however, acted upon all nine of the planks in last Fall's platform. The two things which have not been officially acted upon are the possibility of night bus service to the women's residence halls, which is being started on a trial system by Lawrence bus companies at the present time, and a student handbook to be used in orientation of freshmen which is still being compiled.
orientation, however, explaining that the far reaching goals had been put into the spring platform of 1961 to coincide with the feelings of the candidates which the party was running.
- Investigation of the merits of the reserve student seating plan at athletic events.
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both last year and last fall.
VOX CAN LOOK back upon many accomplishments, including:
Easter Bunny Aided
UP
This is equivalent to focusing a telescope in Baltimore on one eye of a person in Washington. Theoretically, with the OAO, it would be possible to blot out the image of a star and see, in the region immediately surrounding it, the pinpoints of light coming from its family of planets.
- Increase in the ASC budget.
- Student Health Plan.
up outside the earth's atmosphere. NASA is working on such astronomical space platforms now. Two orbiting astronomical observatories (OAO) will be launched in 1964 and two more in 1965. They will be able to aim their telescopes with an accuracy of a tenth of a second of arc.
MARLDON, England — (UPI) — Farmer John Winsor reports that nine of his 40 hens are laying green eggs but he's not upset.
However, in this development of the party it must be noticed that rather than changing the principles of Vox, the UP platforms have been almost parallel with those of Vox, with the exception of the one last Spring which called for increased national and international interest. The party returned to its campus
- Increased Library hours.
up outside the earth's atmosphere.
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- Better police protection to prevent stolen property.
- Better lighting to and from women's residence halls.
- A standardization and consolidation of women's rules.
- transportation control center for commuters and out of state students.
- Creation of a Student Bill of Rights.
THUS THE development of UP is evident in its growth from a group hoping to reform Vox into a group which last semester took the majority of the living district seats on the ASC.
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