They exchanged bits of gossip and current scientific tidbits. The conversation turned to SETI, as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence was beginning to be called. “Have you ever thought about doing it full time, Ellie?” he asked. “I haven’t thought about it much. But it’s not really possible, is it? There’s no major facility devoted to SETI full-time anywhere in the world, as far as I know.” “No, but there might be. There’s a chance that dozens of additional dishes might be added to the Very Large Array, and make it into a dedicated SETI observatory. They’d do some of the usual kind of
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