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Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication

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Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication
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Publisher: NASA
ISBN-13: 9781626830134
Number of pages: 330

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Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence.

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