Ben Rich 'take ET home' quotes.
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'We now have the technology to take ET home' / 'anything you can imagine we already know how to do' — meaning and authenticity contested.
The ET line traces to a humorous public-talk sign-off Rich used from ~1983 after the film E.T. The longer cosmic version lacks any contemporaneous transcript. Secondhand accounts (John Andrews letter; James Goodall deathbed call) support a believer reading but are recollections, not records. Interpretation ranges from joke to coded confession.