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Scientific Chicago

The Search for E.T.

Yasmin Rammohan | March 1, 2012, 10:30 am

If there is extraterrestrial intelligence out there, the Adler Planetarium wants your help in finding it. Astrophysicist Chirs Lintott tells us how you can search for E.T. on your computer.


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