An edition of The eerie silence (2010)

The eerie silence

renewing our search for alien intelligence

1st U.S. ed.
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An edition of The eerie silence (2010)

The eerie silence

renewing our search for alien intelligence

1st U.S. ed.
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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.

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English
Pages
241

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The eerie silence: renewing our search for alien intelligence
2010, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
in English - 1st U.S. ed.

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Boston

Table of 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.

Edition Notes

"First published in the United Kingdom in 2010 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-230) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
576.8/39
Library of Congress
QB54 .D383 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 241 p., [4] p. of plates :
Number of pages
241

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24492587M
Internet Archive
eeriesilencerene00davi
ISBN 10
0547133243
ISBN 13
9780547133249
LCCN
2010003088
OCLC/WorldCat
432986059
Goodreads
7335024

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