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The Contact Paradox - Challenging our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Paperback)
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The Contact Paradox - Challenging our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Paperback)
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In 1974 a message was beamed towards the stars by the giant Arecibo
telescope in Puerto Rico, a brief blast of radio waves designed to
alert extraterrestrial civilisations to our existence. Of course,
we don't know if such civilisations really exist. For the past six
decades a small cadre of researchers have been on a quest to find
out, as part of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
So far, SETI has found no evidence of extraterrestrial life, but
with more than a hundred billion stars in our Galaxy alone to
search, the odds of quick success are stacked against us. The
silence from the stars is prompting some researchers to transmit
more messages into space, in an effort to provoke a response from
any civilisations out there that might otherwise be staying quiet.
However, the act of transmitting raises troubling questions about
the process of contact. In The Contact Paradox, author Keith Cooper
looks at how far SETI has come since its modest beginnings, and
where it is going, by speaking to the leading names in the field
and beyond. SETI forces us to confront our nature in a way that we
seldom have before - where did we come from, where are we going,
and who are we in the cosmic context of things? This book considers
the assumptions that we make in our search for extraterrestrial
life, and explores how those assumptions can teach us about
ourselves.
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