The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (998 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003VXLREQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 413 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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The problem, argues leading physicist and astrobiologist Paul Davies, is that we've been looking in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and in the wrong way. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). In this extraordinary book, he shows how SETI has lost its edge, then offers a new and exciting road map for the future.Davies believes that our search so far has been overly anthropocentric: we tend to assume an alien species will look, think, and behave like us. For more than three decades, he has been closely involved with SETI and now chairs the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup, charged with deciding what to do if we're confronted with evidence of alien intelligence. But after a half century of scanning the skies, astronomers have little to report b
A New SETI Program that Falls Flat When this book first came out four years ago it caused a brief stir within the SETI community although it seems to have been quickly forgotten afterward. Paul Davies is an astrophysicist at Arizona State University and he has been peripherally involved in SETI for many decades. He heads the SETI Po. Thought provoking book, easy to read. readsalot The author knows his stuff, the book has the potential to bog down but never does. This should be a subject of interest to most people. Science to me is more about exploring the path than arriving at some end point. The author rides the fence quite well, whether life and intelligence is common or r. Mind Bending Read Reginald Barclay This book has changed the way I think about SETI. For one, I've previously viewed it as a somewhat quixotic but interesting scientific search for alien radio signals in the hope of connecting with intelligent beings from somewhere else in order to answer the question "are we alone?".In this fascina