Read the text.

Text 5G

Calling All Stars: Interview Broadcast into the

Universe

(to be done in class)

"Calling all stars" is a radio message intercepted from outer space. It says, "Calling all stars, calling all stars. If there are any minds in the Universe capable of receiving this message, please respond. This is Cybernetica speaking. This is the first message broadcast to the Universe in all directions.

We observed on the Earth flashes which we have identified as uranium explosions, and we asked Mind 59, one of our great physicists, to comment on it. He agreed to give us an interview which is now being broadcast.

Interviewer: Mr. Mind 59, what do you think about the uranium explosions observed on the Earth?

Mind 59: Well, the observations of the uranium explosions would be very puzzling but not necessarily alarming. They become actually alarming if we assume the existence of some organisms on the Earth that may have a mind unlike our own and much inferior to it. It may work very much slower and in an unreliable manner.

Interviewer: And what is the difference between the organisms of Cybernetica and those that may be assumed to exist on the Earth?

Mind 59: Our mind is housed in a steel casing containing a thousand billion electrical circuits and they are guided by laws of reason, whereas the minds on the Earth may be of low grade and they could not be expected to act reasonably.

Interviewer: Do you think the minds on the Earth are capable of grasping the physical laws governing the nucleus of the atom?

Mind 59: No doubt, they may be, although in an empirical manner and they might very well have, for purposes unknown, separated Uranium 235 from natural uranium and detonated samples of it.

Interviewer: If this were really so, where would the danger lie?

Mind 59: Oh, I should have told you this in the first place. If our assumption is correct the primitive minds of the Earth must have cooperated for such an enterprise as separating Uranium 235. And if they don't use reason when putting their discovery to use they may endanger not only their own society but ours as well.

Interviewer: Thank you very much for your comments which should help us handle the situation. And now to all who may be listening to us –

If there are within our galaxy any minds similar to ours, who are capable of receiving this message and have knowledge of the existence of organisms on the Earth, please respond. Please respond".

41 You are an invention expert. You've received a patent specification of a new bearing from Russia. Check if the bearing in question is similar to that of the INA Bearing Co., Inc. Fill in the chart below:

Similar features	Different features

Дата добавления: 2015-11-16