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This chapter gives a realistic assessment of the likelihood that human being will ever detect radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations and concludes that we should take seriously the possibility that we are alone in the Galaxy. This has implications for the way we treat each other and all life in earth.
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‘Impact: The Threat of Comets and Asteroids,’ 1996, Gerrit L. Verschuur (Oxford University Press: New York).
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‘Hidden Attraction: The History and Mystery of Magnetism,’ 1993, Gerrit L. Verschuur. (Oxford University Press: New York) 1993.
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Verschuur, G. (2015). On the Radio Astronomical Quest for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. In: The Invisible Universe. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13422-2_17
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