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Alchemist, v. 2, issue 1, Autumn 1946
Page 16
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SIGNALS FROM SPACE BY STANLEY MULLEN In the dimness of the observatory high on the slopes of Mt. Evans above New Denver, the silence grew almost tangible. Here, on a certain night in 2446 were gathered a select group of the greatest scientists and most eminent men from every inhabited globe in the solar system. In tense, nervous excitement, they awaited an announcement from Sahc Nesnah, the chief government observer. Communications had at last been established with one of the nearer stars. Even as far back as the third decade of the Twentieth Century, light fluctuations in Kappa Cassiopeiae had been noted. At that time it was believed that such variation indicated a probability that the star was about to explode and become a nova, and the star was studied with intense and careful interest. However, as the ages passed and the fluctuations con-
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SIGNALS FROM SPACE BY STANLEY MULLEN In the dimness of the observatory high on the slopes of Mt. Evans above New Denver, the silence grew almost tangible. Here, on a certain night in 2446 were gathered a select group of the greatest scientists and most eminent men from every inhabited globe in the solar system. In tense, nervous excitement, they awaited an announcement from Sahc Nesnah, the chief government observer. Communications had at last been established with one of the nearer stars. Even as far back as the third decade of the Twentieth Century, light fluctuations in Kappa Cassiopeiae had been noted. At that time it was believed that such variation indicated a probability that the star was about to explode and become a nova, and the star was studied with intense and careful interest. However, as the ages passed and the fluctuations con-
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