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THE CONSTANT OF NINEVEH
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equinoxes—a slow westward drift of one degree in seventy-two
years, and the revolution periods of the planets, three of which
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are totally invisible by naked eye.
The only logical conclusion, no matter how much it will make
establishment scientists frown, is to assume that astronauts from
another solar or galactic civilization visited our ancestors 65,000
years ago and started the sudden evolution of man by improving
his intelligence through insemination and mutation and then by
initiation into the knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, metallurgy,
and other civihzed secrets. All this could have happened
during the interglacial period between the first and second
Wiirm ice age, when the polar star was Vega and the
climate on earth was just about the same as it is right now, if we
want to believe the 21,000-year climatic cycle that has been discovered
in the geological carboniferous strata. It was an ideal
time to create and educate a new superior human race. But how
can we prove this?
About fifty years ago, in 1928, European radio operators in
France, Germany, Norway, and Holland noticed a strange phenomenon.
When they transmitted in all
directions a series of signals,
they received two series of echoes instead of one. Normal
echoes, after circling the earth by bouncing several times on the
ionosphere, always came back after a normal delay of one seventh
of 1 second.
On the contrary, abnormal echoes always came back after
interval vaiying from 3 to 15 seconds, as if they had bounced from
some object located at a distance from earth of 450,000 to
2,250,000 km, but always a little bit farther than the moon. As
usual, this discovery was kept as secret as possible, and, after
several years, it was even completely forgotten.
Then a few years ago, a young Scottish astronomer by the
name of Duncan Lunan, had a bright idea. He thought that
these signals could very well have come from an alien spaceship
orbiting the earth at about the same distance as the moon and
that the variable intervals between the transmission of signals
and reception of echoes might represent an intelligent coded
message representing geometric figures or even the map of a
constellation, as Bracewell had already suggested in 1968.
By using the usual television technique of so many dots per
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