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81. Why Bother Searching for Aliens?

People I (Mostly) Admire

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How Did You Get Your Father's Death?

I was the only woman an entering class af three hundredo three of 300. So you must't be very special for conell to admit you, and also very special to have wanted to go. You entered the cornell engineering programm as an undergraduatea 19 61. Let me ask you some more personal questions. Back in the 19 seventies, the famous astronimer karl sagan wrote a novel called contact,. In which the heroine was essentially a fictionalized version of you. Did you pitch the idea to him, or vice versa? No, i didn't at all.

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