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Published online 18 February 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020218-4
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Star trek criteria
Interstellar travellers should be "motivated, tolerant and nice".
One hundred and sixty fertile, motivated, English speakers could make it to distant stars, researchers have worked out. But generations down the line, returning voyagers may speak an alien tongue.
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