The debate on SETI in the Soviet Union

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Oct 1978

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Spaceflight, vol. 20, Sept.-Oct. 1978, p. 346, 347.

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Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Project Seti, U.S.S.R. Space Program, Binary Stars, Galactic Nuclei, Galaxies, Organic Compounds, Quasars, Solar System, Uranus Rings

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A debate has developed in the Soviet Union regarding the significance of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The majority view is that this search is of tremendous importance to mankind. The spokesman of this majority is Kardashov (1977) who has concerned himself with the design of a suitable strategy of searching for extraterrestrial civilizations. Shklovsky (1977), on the other hand, as the representative of the minority, has pointed to the growing number of stars that have been found to belong to binary or multiple systems, in which, he maintains, there is little likelihood of life developing because of wide-ranging temperature fluctuations. But Kardashov espouses the view that multiple star systems can also have habitable planets. Attention is given to differences between Kardashov and Shklovsky regarding the possible existence of supercivilizations, Kardashov's 'working hypotheses', and the Very Long Baseline Interferometer technique considered by Kardashov.

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