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The man was barred in 1981 from the University of Oslo, where he was an astrophysics student, because his strong smell and tattered clothing drew complaints from staff and students, the newspaper Verdens Gang reported Monday.
The man, whose name was not released, has lived in a plastic-foam shack in Oslo since 1978. He claims that avoiding soap and living in a shack helps him achieve a deepter understanding of astrophysics, the newspaper said.
He has repeatedly challenged the university ruling in court, but lost every time. His attorney wants to take the matter to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
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Recently, research has shown that radio signals from afar suffer fading and distortion as they pass through the long reaches of space. But the systems designed to listen for alien radio signals-- called SETI, or Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence --were set up under the assumption that any signal coming from another civilization would be a continued or repeating signal.
This could mean that the current SETI programs have already recorded real messages, without recognizing them, said researchers James Cordes, Joseph Lazio and the late Carl sagan, all of Cornell University. The scientists' conclusions appeared in a research report published recently in the Astrophysical Journal.
Over the years, SETI programs have recorded a few intriguing signals that seemed to meet all the criteria except one, the report said. The missing criterion was repeatability; the signals were never detected again, despite intensive listening.
Now, the scientists say that a close look shows that the follow-up observations made on the sources were inadequate--one tenth of waht was needed in terms of sensitivity. Better work is needed to distinguish between accidents, including signals from staellites of radio transmissions from Earth-bound sources, and genuine messages coming from across the galaxy, they said.
Physicist Paul Horowitz, director of a SETI search called Project Beta, which uses a big dishshaped radio telescope in Harvard, Mass., said these ideas have already been incorporated into the automated search system. The computer now conducts 120 follow-ups on each interesting signal that is detected.
And Jill Tartar, at the SETI Institute in California, said her system has already used more sensitive equipment in Green Bank, W.Va., to re-observe some of the interesting spots in the sky detected earlier.
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A man it conneticut was charged with attempted robbery today at a local Walmart. It was not a successful robbery because the cashier gave him no money. It was not armed robbery because the man had no weapon. However, partial concealed in a dunkin' donuts bag, was a black and decker dustbuster. "stick em up" this is a clean up!
--Parapharased from Paul Harvey.
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