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Letter: Letter

Published 31 August 2002

From Yvan Dutil

There is another reason why there have been very few SETI transmissions (17 August, p 27). Unlike passive SETI, you are 100 per cent certain not to receive a reply in your lifetime.

Ste-Foy, Quebec

Issue no. 2358 published 31 August 2002

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