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| Rance Muhammitz resides in Centerville, a real nice place to raise your kids up in -- home of churches and liquor stores. |
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At what frequency shall we look? A long spectrum search for a weak
Signal of unknown frequency is difficult. But, just what in the most favoured radio region there lies a unique, objective standard of frequency, which must be known to every observer in the universe: the outstanding radio emission line at 1,420 Mc./s. (ë = 21 cm.) of neutral hydrogen. It is reasonable to expect that sensitive receivers for this frequency will be made at an early stage of the development of radio-astronomy. That would be the expectation of the operators of the assumed source, and the present state of terrestrial instruments indeed justifies the expectation. Therefore we think it most promising to search in the neighbourhood of 1,420 Mc./s. (845).
Cocconi, Giuseppe and Philip Morrison. “Searching for Interstellar
Communications.†Nature 184 (19 Sep. 1959): 844-46.
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