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Futures
Nature 402, 19 (4 November 1999) | doi:10.1038/46906
Improving the neighbourhood
Arthur C. Clarke1
At last, after feats of information processing that taxed our resources to the limit, we have solved the long-standing mystery of the Double Nova. Even now, we have interpreted only a small fraction of the radio and optical messages from the culture that perished so spectacularly, but the main facts — astonishing though they are — seem beyond dispute.
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