An alien concept

Fred Kaplan
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Fred Kaplan: Fred Kaplan is a columnist for Slate based in New York and author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed. war_stories@hotmail.com

Nature, 2009, vol. 461, issue 7262, 345-346

Abstract: Fifty years ago this week, a Nature paper legitimized the idea that there could be civilizations elsewhere, able to communicate and wanting to contact us. Fred Kaplan reflects on its origins, impacts and legacy.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1038/461345a

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