"Archaeology of the future is what it should be called. Archaeology of the past is very interesting because it tells us what we once were. But archaeology of the future is the study of what we're going to become, what we have a chance to become...it's a missing element in our understanding of the universe which tells us what our future is like, and what our place in the universe is. If there's nobody else out there, that's also quite important to know."
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On SETI, Nothing is Too Wonderful to be True (1995)
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Philip Morrison
Philip Morrison (7 November 1915 – 22 April 2005) was an American physicist from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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