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Editorial
Nature 443, 606 (12 October 2006) | doi:10.1038/443606a; Published online 11 October 2006
Ambassador for Earth
One of the strengths of the community involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence — known as SETI — is its imaginative capacity to take seriously things that most people dismiss out of hand.The idea that the technologies of astronomy might go beyond allowing us new insights into the natural world, and provide us with a means of communion with alien creatures, is not entirely fanciful.
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