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SO WHERE IS EVERYBODY? The Elusive Search For Aliens. ?Fifty years ago this week, on April 8, 1960?

By Glenn Reynolds

SO WHERE IS EVERYBODY? The Elusive Search For Aliens. “Fifty years ago this week, on April 8, 1960, a little-known astronomer named Frank Drake sat at the controls of an 85-foot radio telescope at an observatory in Green Bank, W.Va., and began to sweep the skies, looking for a signal from an alien civilization. It was the start of the most ambitious scientific experiment in history.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 11, 2010 (boomark / email).