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ET Is Back. Is He Bringing Friends?

With the re-release of ET: The Extra Terrestrial on March 22, we thought we'd check in with Louis Friedman, head of the Planetary Society, to see how the search for the real ET is going.
By Ted Johnson Posted 03.14.2002 at 3:19 pm 0 Comments

If ET is out there, chances are SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) will hear him first-thanks in no small part to Steven Spielberg, the man behind 1982's smash ET: The Extra Terrestrial, who donated $100,000 to Carl Sagan's Planetary Society in 1985 to keep its receivers pointing heavenward. With Spielberg set to re-release the sci-fi classic on March 22, we thought we'd check in with Louis Friedman, head of the Planetary Society, to see how the search for the real ET is going.
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