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The idea dates from 1960, when a young astronomer by the name of Frank Drake used this antenna in West Virginia, pointed it at a couple of nearby stars in the hopes of eavesdropping on E.T. Now, Frank didn't hear anything.

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These crude tools were around for thousands of centuries, until around 1.4 million years ago when Homo erectus started shaping single, thin stone blades, sometimes rounded ovals, but often in what are to our eyes an arresting, symmetrical pointed leaf or teardrop form.

And I was at the White House for President Bush, meeting with every federal department and agency, and I pointed out that they appear to have no plan.

So, as Kevin Kelly pointed out, there is no endgame.

Because in poetics, as Margaret Atwood pointed out, "we write our history on the skin of fish with the blood of bears."

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