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Sagan's international SETI petition published in Science

When: Oct 1982
Sources: 2 public sources

Carl Sagan, who led the 1982 petition in Science for a worldwide SETI search Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Carl Sagan and 68 other scientists, among them seven Nobel laureates, published a petition in Science urging a coordinated worldwide radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence, arguing the question could only be settled by observation.

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PressE.T., phone Earth -- scientists are listening harder (opens in a new tab)The Christian Science Monitor / 1982-10-25
OtherExtraterrestrial Intelligence: An International Petition (Science, Vol. 218, p. 426, 1982) (opens in a new tab)Science (copy hosted by UCLA SETI group) / 1982

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