Editing Ozma

'''Project Ozma''' is a {{Pentagon}} program that was headed by astrophysicist [[Frank D. Drake]] in {{1960}}. The program continues today. It is part of a 1958 [[Back side of the Moon]] program, reference Command [[Apollo#Kirtland AFB|Kirtland AFB]] {{arf|Project A119}}. [[Carl Sagan]] was a team member.<ref name=Reiffel>{{usa|Air Force Special Weapons Center}}, R&D Command, ''[https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB479/docs/EBB-Moon02.pdf A Study of Lunar Research Flights]'' by [[Leonard Reiffel]], 19 June 1959</ref> Project Ozma was named after [[Princess Ozma]] from the [[Land of Oz]] book series by [[L. Frank Baum]],<ref name=PO>{{Wiki|Project Ozma}}</ref> and also serves as an acronym for '''Operation Zeta Mass Abduction''' ([[Zeta|OZMA]]).

==Ozma==
{{cwt|'''Moon Child'''<br>
[[File:Moon Child.jpeg|290px|"Moon Child" in ''The Neverending Story'' film adaptation.]]
The child princess in ''The Neverending Story'' (1979)<ref>{{Wiki|The Neverending Story}}</ref> draws parallels from the Princess Ozma character. The origins and inspirations may be rooted in the Chinese story of the [[Queen of the Moon]], 姮娥 “Cháng'é”,<ref>{{Wiki|Chang'e}}</ref> the name used for the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. [[China]]'s first flight was 24 October 2007,<ref>{{Wiki|Chinese Lunar Exploration Program}}</ref> just a few months after {{arc|Fichiers CNES d'OVNIs|France}} had become the first country to open its [[UFO files]].<ref>New Scientist, [https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11443-france-opens-up-its-ufo-files/#ixzz6FPoylAgR France opens up its UFO files], 22 March 2007</ref>
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Project Ozma was named after [[Princess Ozma]], a frequent character in [[L. Frank Baum]]'s [[Land of Oz]] book series. Baum supposedly received messages from a place called Oz, by radio, to learn of the events that inspired his books.<ref name=PO/> Baum described Oz as a place "very far away, difficult to reach, and populated by strange and exotic beings."<ref>[[SETI]], [https://www.seti.org/seti-institute/project/details/early-seti-project-ozma-arecibo-message Early SETI: Project Ozma, Arecibo Message]</ref> In the ''Land of Oz'' series, Princess Ozma is a ruler of Oz, whose reign as an [[immortal]], is desired to be forever. Ozma has the appearance of a fourteen-year-old in a land whose inhabitants of Oz cease to age, suggesting that Ozma would always appear to be an extremely beautiful young girl.<ref name=POC>{{Wiki|Princess Ozma#The classic books}}</ref>

Ozma first appears in ''{{usa|The Marvelous Land of Oz}}'' (1904).<ref>{{Wiki|Princess Ozma}}</ref> As an infant, Ozma, was given to the witch [[Mombi of the North]], who transformed Ozma into a boy and called him "Tip" (Tippetarius) in order to prevent the rightful ruler of Oz from ascending to the throne. Ozma spent her entire childhood with Mombi in the form of the boy Tip, with no memory of ever having been a girl. "Glinda the Good" discovered what happened and forced Mombi to turn Tip back into Ozma; Now as a Princess, Ozma continues to possess the Throne of Oz, although many of the realms within Oz are unware of her authority.<ref name=POC/>

==Drake Equation==
{{usa|Cornell University}}'s Frank D. Drake was assigned a [[SETI]] project in 1960 by the Pentagon to determine a number of "active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy."<ref>{{Wiki|Drake equation}}</ref> In 1961, a SETI conference was held at the [[Green Bank Observatory]], which is located in the {{usa|United States National Radio Quiet Zone}} in {{usa|Green Bank, West Virginia}}, to debrief attendees on Project OZMA's agenda and to discuss what later became known as the "{{arf|Drake Equation}}". However, unbeknownst to everyone who's taken astronomy the Drake Equation is just another methodology of duping the masses. Because student's are told to discount three-quarters of all Stars that could potentially have intelligent life. In other words, according to Drake, if a solar system contains two (binary) or more Suns, the planets within that particular system would be too volatile for life, including intelligent life. Therefore, one would wrongly assume multiple Stars within a solar system are all proxmal. Henceforth, the weather would not support life. However, if one was to consider that some Stars are thousands of years apart... then there would be plenty of time for life to to manifest. Additionally, according to the Drake Equation, seventy-six percent of all planets in the universe are binary. <ref name=DEH>{{Wiki|Drake equation#History}}</ref> 

==Order of the Dolphin==
The [[Order of the Dolphin]] were attendees at the 1961 SETI conference in Green Bank, West Virginia. They included, organizer J. Peter Pearman, Frank D. Drake, Philip Morrison, businessman and radio amateur Dana Atchley, chemist Melvin Calvin, astronomer Su-Shu Huang, neuroscientist John C. Lilly, inventor Barney Oliver, astronomer [[Carl Sagan]] and radio-astronomer Otto Struve.<ref name=DEH/>

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