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The Contact Paradox

Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

by Keith Cooper

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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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, inspired by the Arecibo transmission, 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

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact.

  • UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref, gegnir, and openalex matched “extraterrestrial contact” and “Geimverur”. Retained metadata contains “extraterrestrial” in the subtitle, “extraterrestrial” in the description, “extraterrestrial” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “extraterrestrial contact”· via Crossref
    • “Geimverur”· via Gegnir/Leitir — Icelandic Union Catalogue
    • “extraterrestrial contact”· via OpenAlex
    • “extraterrestrial”· in subtitle
    • “extraterrestrial”· in description
    • “extraterrestrial”· in subject

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Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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336 bls; Publication place: London

2019Bloomsbury Sigma; Bloomsbury Sigma eBooksEnglish
  • 9781472960429
  • 9781472960436
  • 9781472960443
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crossref:10.5040/9781472960436
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