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Letter: Galactic warming

Published 10 September 2014

From Haydn Webb

So Jason Wright at Pennsylvania State University is scanning the galaxies for waste heat given off by the machines of tech-savvy aliens (23 August, p 11). I can imagine our first message should we find them: “Hello. Guess what? We are wrecking our planet too!”
St Blazey, Cornwall, UK

Issue no. 2986 published 13 September 2014

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