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Should Humanity Try to Contact Intelligent Aliens?

The photo is a book cover from a modern reprint, by Emerson-Adams Press in 1998, of perhaps the most important book in the field, first published in English in1966 (published in Russian by Shklovsky alone in 1962)

This article about communicating with alien civilizations contains quotations by Seth Shostak, Chris Impey of Steward, and Steven Dick and Michael Michaud. The photo is a book cover from a modern reprint, by Emerson-Adams Press in 1998, of perhaps the most important book in the field, first published in English in1966 (published in Russian by Shklovsky alone in 1962)   

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