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I forwarded Jim's question to SETI@Home and recently received this reply:
Dear Mr. Johnson,
The idea of otherworldly inhabitants is quite old... certainly the
classical Greeks wrote of this. You can find a thorough and scholarly
treatment of this subject in the books by Stephen Dick and Michael
Crowe.
Most sincerely,
Seth Shostak
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: History of ETI concept
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:08:37 -0600
From: Paul O. Johnson
To: Ed_Dept@seti.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Green" <JMGreen@SISNA.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 11:33 PM
Subject: Inhabited Planets
When did the idea of other inhabited planets begin?
Recently? Aristotle? Newton? Egyptians? Chinese? Babylonians?
Pre-history?
Jim Green
mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
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