Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (528 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0041JNTT0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 282 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Dispels the Hollywood Myths" according to Peter Cawdron. This is not everyone's cup of tea, but if your idea of a Sunday afternoon is sitting around with a scientist shooting the breeze, talking about the possibility of alien intelligence existing out there somewhere, then you'll love this book. It's everything you wanted to ask after watching the movie Contact (written by Carl Sagan, starring Jode Foster), but never knew who to ask.Hollywood gets it all spectacularly wrong, which makes for great movies but also means our collective public awareness of this area of science is lousy.And there's some great insights. . I do believe, I do, I do (Serious cred for a fascinating subject!) Thomas Love Seth's podcast "Big Picture Science" and his take on "Things ET." This book is an informative, thought provoking look as the history, challenges and potential of human's striving for that "first contact" moment that has SCIENCE written all over it. Just to mention for those who enjoy this stuff, Joel Achenbach's "Captured By Aliens" is also a great book, written with wry wit and fun prose (which Seth haseth also) such that these two should be side by side on your bookshelf or sharing ram in your reading device.. Thomas A. Tellesbo said Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. The self-professed occupation of 'Alien Hunter' made me think immediately of Charlie Frost, Woody Harrelson's character in Roland Emmerich's "Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" according to Thomas A. Tellesbo. The self-professed occupation of 'Alien Hunter' made me think immediately of Charlie Frost, Woody Harrelson's character in Roland Emmerich's 2012; a genuinely likeable character though somewhat didactically aggressive, mis-focused, and hardly believable. I was pleasantly surprised to find my vision completely off the mark.Seth Shostak is a Princeton and California Institute of Technology educated astronomer, associated for years, now as Senior Astronomer, with The SETI Institute (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Not only are his credentials impeccab. 01"Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" according to Thomas A. Tellesbo. The self-professed occupation of 'Alien Hunter' made me think immediately of Charlie Frost, Woody Harrelson's character in Roland Emmerich's 2012; a genuinely likeable character though somewhat didactically aggressive, mis-focused, and hardly believable. I was pleasantly surprised to find my vision completely off the mark.Seth Shostak is a Princeton and California Institute of Technology educated astronomer, associated for years, now as Senior Astronomer, with The SETI Institute (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Not only are his credentials impeccab. ; a genuinely likeable character though somewhat didactically aggressive, mis-focused, and hardly believable. I was pleasantly surprised to find my vision completely off the mark.Seth Shostak is a Princeton and California Institute of Technology educated astronomer, associated for years, now as Senior Astronomer, with The SETI Institute (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Not only are his credentials impeccab
This engaging memoir reveals the true story of the Search for ExtraterrestrialIntelligence (SETI), and discloses what we may very soon discover.Chronicling the program's history with insight and humor, SETI senior astronomer Seth Shostak assures us that if there is sentient life in the universe, we are within decades of picking up its signal. Since the first Martian "canals" were charted in 1877, space aliens have captivated skygazers, night travelers, and television-watchers worldwide. Polls show that nearly half of all Americans believe in extraterrestrials, and many are convinced they've visited Earth. Methodically busting urban legends abo