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The eerie silence : renewing our search for alien intelligence / Paul Davies.

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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xiii, 241 p., [4] p. of 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
  • Life on other planets
  • Extraterrestrial beings
  • Unidentified flying objects
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.
ISBN
  • 9780547133249 :
  • 0547133243
LCCN
^^2010003088
OCLC
432986059
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library