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Letter: Is anyone out there?

Published 4 March 2015

From Neil Doherty

We ought not to fear attracting advanced aliens through interstellar signals (21 February, p 8). Considering the chances of any sentient life having the technology to detect, recognise and understand our signals, and the distances involved to travel to its source, we will be a very advanced race ourselves by the time they arrive.
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK

Issue no. 3011 published 7 March 2015

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