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On this silver anniversary of the first published proposal for a search of the skies to seek communications over interstellar distances, I present a rather personal account of the origins of the proposal, and an appraisal of the new and hopeful status of the search worldwide.
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Morrison, P. (1985). Twenty-Five Years of the Search for Extraterrestrial Communications. In: Papagiannis, M.D. (eds) The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Recent Developments. International Astronomical Union, vol 112. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5462-5_3
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