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Shklovskii and Sagan publish 'Intelligent Life in the Universe'

When: 1966
Sources: 1 public source

Soviet astronomer I. S. Shklovskii, co-author with Carl Sagan A. T. Service, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Holden-Day published Intelligent Life in the Universe, Carl Sagan's expanded translation of a book by Soviet astronomer I. S. Shklovskii. It weighed the odds of life elsewhere, radio contact, and claims of past alien visits to Earth.

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PressIs anybody out there? (review of Intelligent Life in the Universe, by Herbert Malamud) (opens in a new tab)Physics Today / 1967-06

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