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Alien hunters take screen test

Life looks to art to gauge likelihood of messages from other worlds.

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  1. Shostak, S. & Almár, I. F. The Rio scale applied to fictional "SETI Detections". Acta Astronautica, in press (2002).

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Clarke, T. Alien hunters take screen test. Nature (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/news021007-9

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