BTW - The fellow in that first article image...
...is Charles Townes, the Optical SETI pioneer who promoted the idea of
alien intelligences using lasers to communicate across the galaxy right
around the same time the laser itself was invented and the idea of
radio as a cosmic communcations method was formed.
http://www.coseti.org/townes_0.htm
Speaking of SETI, they should put in a number for the Drake Equation
for how many planets are sterilized by supernovae over time.
http://www.setileague.org/general/drake.htm