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Nature 452, 1032 (24 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/4521032a; Published online 23 April 2008

SETI for profit

Gregory Benford1

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A capital idea.

Multi-billionaire Clyde Kraft's announcement that his team had detected a SETI signal shocked the world. He claimed to have found a plainly artificial broadband signal from a star well over a thousand light years away.