The eerie silence : renewing our search for alien intelligence / Paul Davies.
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TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: xiii, 241 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780547133249
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- QB54 .D383 2010
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| 52:573.5 BRA Space colonies / | 52:573.5 BRE Contact with the stars : | 52:573.5 COU Life beyond Earth : | 52:573.5 DAV The eerie silence : | 52:573.5 DOL Planets for Man | 52:573.5 DRA Is anyone out there? The search for extraterrestrial intelligence | 52:573.5 GIL An introduction to astrobiology / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-230) and index.
Is anybody out there? -- Life : freak side-show or cosmic imperative? -- A shadow biosphere -- How much intelligence is out there? -- New SETI : widening the search -- Evidence for a galactic diaspora -- Alien magic -- Post-biological intelligence -- First contact -- Who speaks for Earth? -- Appendix. A brief history of SETI.
In this mind-expanding book, Paul Davies, astrobiologist and chairman of the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup and, refocuses the search, challenging existing ideas of what form an alien intelligence might take, how it might try to communicate with us, and how we should respond if it does.
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