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Friday, November 18, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
AT&T sponsors space calls
Satellite dishes beam public's audio-visual messages at speed of light
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Earthhings who dream of reaching and touch extreater extraterral beings can thrust their voice and image billions of miles into space by making a special long-distance call.
By using "space phones" set up today through Saturday in the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. building atrium, the public will have a chance to communicate with anyone they are interested in, even they're dead, said AIT&T spokesman Brian Monahan.
About 30 hours of recorded audio-visual messages will be beamed to outer space by the telephone company's satellite dishes from Thanksgiving to New Year's during the early morning hours when they aren't being used for
Monahan said AT&T has 30-meter dishes across the country armed with communications satellites, and one or more of these satellites are deployed.
"They're very powerful," he said. "We're gonna crank these up."
The messages will travel at the speed of light in a straight line until they run into something. Monaha
me once until they run into something. Monahan said, "I think it appeals to the imagination — the idea of harling messages at the speed of light." he said. "And, of course, it's free, so if people don't get a call back they
communicate with possible extraterrestrials. When the Voyager spacecraft was launched in 1977, it carried a digital record of 118 photographs of Earth, 90 minutes of the world's greatest music and greetings in almost 60 human languages and one whale language.
can't be upst. The space phones are not the first high-tech attempt to
But what is new and exciting about this latest communication effort is that it is the first time non-scientists will be using it.
sending messages into space.
The messages are recorded as callers speak for 30 seconds into a microphone while being filmed by a television camera, he said.
"We thought it would be fascinating to find out what people would say if they had a chance to leave a message long after they were gone," said Monahan. "We expect to get some very serious thoughts on life, people's hopes, possibly for the coming year but also for the future of the universe."
the first day of AT&T's "Call the Universe" program coincided with the opening of its newest phone center at the company's headquarters and the 25th anniversary of its introduction of push-button phones.
As part of today's celebration, Michael Collins, a veteran of the Gemini and Apollo space missions, Terry Hart, a mission specialist on a flight of the space shuttle Challenger, and New York Mets pitcher Ron Darling were invited to appear and talk to the long-distance callers.
The Kansas Geological Survey also needs another unclassified staff position. Only this time, the agency's manager here is what the new employee will do.
RESEARCH
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"It's too early to tell," said Don Steeple, director of the geological survey. "It depends on several things, like how much money we get. We have no control until it comes out of the Legislature."
The survey needs to expand its water recovery programs, the budget said. Steeples said the map production and computer services
portions of the survey also needed additional funds.
"Every year we have a request in for additional staff," Steeples said "We only get it on rare occasions."
In his 13 years the survey, in his additional staff came in quite three of them.
The Institute for Life Span Studies, which employs more than 250 faculty and graduate students, would receive a staff member under the proposal.
"We have an incomparable amount of work with children and
older citizens at KU," Horowitz said. "We have a broad umbrella out of that institute.
But Richard Schiefelbush, the institute's director, won't worry about it until the institute gets the money.
“Until you get something like that, “it is so nebulous,” Schiefelbush said. You don’t formulate a committee to deal with that until you actually get the money.
The Center for International Programs also would add another classified staff member.
JONESTOWN
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men and a Temple defector were shot to death in an ambush at nearby Port Kaituna airstrip, Eleven people, including Richard Dwyer, a U.S. diplomat in Guiana, were wounded.
Ryan had flown to Guyana to investigate reports that Jones was abusing his followers.
Jonestown ranged over 300 acres carved from dense tropical rain forest 140 miles from Georgetown, the
capital. Dozens of cottages, workshops
and dormitories sat in tidy
rows.
Pursuring the ideals of socialism and racial harmony, Jones and his 960 disciples - 70 percent of them black, 25 percent white and the rest mulatto, Hispanic, American Indian and Asian - cultivated a grove musc
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