In 1960, Project Ozma pointed a radio telescope at Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani. The result was silence. That silence did not end the search for extraterrestrial intelligence , but it did establish one of the field’s lasting features: a scientific program can produce no detection for decades and still grow in method, scope, and seriousness.
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