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Published online 9 October 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021007-9
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Alien hunters take screen test
Life looks to art to gauge likelihood of messages from other worlds.
Scientists searching for extraterrestrial intelligence are turning to the silver screen to test the Rio Scale, their tool for grading the significance of life signs from space.
In the absence of actual messages from extraterrestrials, they have rated Hollywood blockbusters on the scale from 1 to 10 that they designed to help society comprehend the seriousness of any reported encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence.
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