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The eerie silence : renewing our search for alien intelligence
- Title
- The eerie silence : renewing our search for alien intelligence / Paul Davies.
- Author
- Davies, P. C. W.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
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- Description
- xiii, 241 p., [4] p. of col. plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-230) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JSE 13-251
- ISBN
- 9780547133249 (hc)
- 0547133243 (hc)
- LCCN
- 2010003088
- OCLC
- 432986059
- Author
- Davies, P. C. W.
- Title
- The eerie silence : renewing our search for alien intelligence / Paul Davies.
- Imprint
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-230) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 13-251