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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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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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.