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These are projects only a supercivilization could attempt--not something for 21st century engineers.

From Time Magazine Archive

They gravely reject the theory of Russian Astronomer Nikolai S. Kardashev, that one of the five reported last week, CTA-102, sends out bursts of energy that are coded messages to the universe from a supercivilization.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the mid-1960s, a Russian astronomer detected varying signals from a mysteri ous radio source; Tass breathlessly reported that the signals were a beacon from a supercivilization.

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