The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (928 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003VXLREQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 482 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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A New SETI Program that Falls Flat Tom Marking 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 Post-Detection Taskgroup which is supposed to make recommendations conce. readsalot said Thought provoking book, easy to read.. 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 rare. I believe it's possible that shadow life (and intelligence) may o. "Mind Bending Read" according to 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 fascinating book, Paul Davies tries to get us thinking about the much more fu
Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. He argues that we need to be far more expansive in our efforts, and in this book he completely redefines 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 we ever do make contact. Davies should know. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). But after a half century of scanning the skies, astronomers have little to report but an eerie silence---eerie because many scientists are convinced that the universe is teeming with life. 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. A provocative and mind-expanding journey, The Eerie Silence will thrill fans of science and science fiction alike.. The problem, argues leading physicist and astrobiologist Paul Davies, is that we've been looking in th