Reinventing SETI : new directions in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence /

For millennia, humanity has looked up at the sprawling tapestry of stars and wondered what lay beyond. With time, we learned that each star is not a pinprick point in a domed sky, but a massive plasma sphere so far away that the distance becomes incomprehensible to the human mind, measured in light...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gertz, John (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Fermi's faux paradox
  • Reconsidering a sacred cow : the Drake equation
  • Standard observational SETI : it's time to move on
  • What's there to talk about anyway?
  • METI : beyond folly to the stupid, arrogant, delusional, and downright dangerous
  • ET hits the road
  • or not
  • There's no place like home
  • ET does have a solution : robotic probes
  • Humankind is utterly unprepared : how foolish is that!
  • Getting Earth's act together by act of treaty.