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Interviews with pioneers in the search of extraterrestrial intelligence clarify questions about the nature of the search. Despite its ‘far out’ objective, it shares characteristics with other, more conventional activities which are considered to be “science”.
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Swift, D. W., 1990: SETI Pioneers, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.
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Swift, D.W. (1991). SETI as a science. In: Heidmann, J., Klein, M.J. (eds) Bioastronomy. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 390. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54752-5_250
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