Abstract
Detecting extraterrestrial intelligence will be more difficult than most searchers had hoped. Finding evidence of alien civilizations may require rigorous and repetitive search and analysis that lasts beyond individual lifetimes. It may require a broader strategy, and a willingness to look in new places. It may require means not yet available to us.
The universe isn’t obliged to live up to our hopes and expectations. —Govert Schilling, 19981
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Michaud, M.A.G. (2007). Some Conclusions Drawn. In: Contact with Alien Civilizations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68618-9_31
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