The unending search for ET. (extraterrestrial) (R&D Innovative Notebook)

From: R & D | Date: March 1, 1993| Author: Jueneman, Frederic B. | Copyright information

The search for intelligence beyond Earth is subsumed under the search for the identity of mankind. This quest may continue for the next several million years, as long as man's inquisitiveness fuels this timeless pursuit. NASA's current radiotelescope involvement in the SETI program, begun on Oct. 12, 1992, should now carry us well into the next millennium.

The first inchoate beginnings of the larger search--that of identity--is dimly remembered in the most ancient messages o...

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