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Preface: A Prediction
Within the next decade or two the human species will estabhsh communication with another species: nonhuman, alien, possibly extraterrestrial, more probably marine; but definitely highly intelligent, perhaps even intellectual. An optimistic prediction, I admit. In this book I have summarized the basic reasons for my beliefs and presented some evidence for the validity of the prediction. In a way this is a crude, elementary handbook for those humans who are interested in the realization of such communication. If no one among us pursues the matter before interspecies communication is forced upon Homo sapiens by an alien species, this book will have failed in its
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