Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site spuxll.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!spuxll!fc From: fc@spuxll.UUCP (fc) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Voyager at Uranus Message-ID: <740@spuxll.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 13:08:19 EDT Article-I.D.: spuxll.740 Posted: Fri Oct 25 13:08:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:45:05 EDT References: <22000008@hpfcla.UUCP> Organization: at my lunch hour Lines: 12 >> Does anybody know if the Planetary Society is going to let members get >> anywhere near JPL during the Voyager Uranus encounter? > I doubt it. When the Viking missions landed in '76, they sent home most > of the JPL employees (!) for half a day. What was the reason for sending home "most of the JPL employees"? Statements like the above make me wonder what the Planetary Society/JPL/US Govt. etc would do if a confirmed encounter with intelligent non-earth life were made? Would there be full disclosure, or would there be a coverup to avoid a possible panic?