will humanity make contact with another intelligent life form / civilisation?
will humanity make contact with another intelligent life form / civilisation?
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this market will cuntinue until humanity either makes contact with another intelligent life form; resulting in yes, or until humanity discovers that the visibile / reachable universe containes no other intelligent life forms or civilisations; resluting no
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