Contact with Alien Civilizations Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials /
This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn. As necessary background, the book also include...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
| Summary: | This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn. As necessary background, the book also includes brief summaries of the history of thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence, searches for life and for signals, contrasting paradigms of how contact might take place, and the paradox that those paradigms allegedly create. |
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| Physical Description: | XIV, 466 p. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9780387686189 |
