Dear Josh:

Thank you for the xhm& note about oyster genetics. Muck
more important than srails to my non—Yallic tastes. I hope something
can be done to maintahn the effort.

On the words from afar:

I looked at the literature I have, and I am not able to find
the explicit source ef the notion that we should send 1/137..... or such

a number. It is rather a straidtforward notion. I find it a little

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redundant: the nature ef the signal is a more relevant measure of tie
sender's accomplishments than -ny citatiems from precision physics. I

doubt the utility of the dimensionless numbers.

As to saféey by concealment, you know the riposte. If anybody
i@ able to come and eat us across the depths of space, he is pretty sure
as a much easier technical feat
to sense our presence, no matter hew hard we hide. Such beiwgs assumed,

I nold with Fred Hoyle: our best chawe is to appear as intelligent as

we can, and hope for sympathy.

NOSINYOW

with best wishes

CHB.

Phil Morrison

 

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