The eerie silence
Subtitle: renewing our search for alien intelligence
By: Paul Davies
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780547133249
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Is anybody out there?; title: Life : freak side-show or cosmic imperative?; title: A shadow biosphere; title: How much intelligence is out there?; title: New SETI : widening the search; title: Evidence for a galactic diaspora; title: Alien magic; title: Post-biological intelligence; title: First contact; title: Who speaks for Earth?; title: Appendix. A brief history of SETI.