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Science 3 June 1960:
Vol. 131. no. 3414, pp. 1667 - 1668
DOI: 10.1126/science.131.3414.1667
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Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation

Freeman J. Dyson 1

1 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

If extraterrestrial intelligent beings exist and have reached a high level of technical development, one by-product of their energy metabolism is likely to be the large-scale conversion of starlight into far-infrared radiation. It is proposed that a search for sources of infrared radiation should accompany the recently initiated search for interstellar radio communications.


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