Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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- Author: Jean Heidmann, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon
- Translator: Storm Dunlop
- Date Published: March 1997
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521585637
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If extraterrestrial intelligence exists, then positive detection would be the greatest scientific discovery of all time. By what criteria should we judge whether we are alone in the cosmos, and how should we set about detecting extraterrestrials? Jean Heidmann answers these questions in this engaging discussion of extraterrestrial intelligence. Through a clear explanation of the many issues involved, including new and updated information, the entire subject of extraterrestrial intelligence is explained: the expansion of searches in space, the habitable zones in our universe, and what might happen if actual contact takes place.
Awards
- Winner of the Basic Sciences Book Award
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'Aimed at the general public, it succinctly covers all the important aspects of the field … Heidmann writes in a lucid, agreeable personal style.' Nature
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- Date Published: March 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521585637
- length: 268 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 138 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.654kg
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. The Bioastronomical Prospect:
1. The cosmic stage
2. The organic stage
3. The prebiotic stage
4. The primitive biological stage
Part II. Extraterrestrials:
5. Intelligence
6. The SETI Pioneers
7. Why use radio waves?
8. NASA takes up the challenge
9. False alarms
10. The expansion of SETI
11. Habitable zones in the universe
12. The day we make contact
13. The new world of SETI
14. SETI in the twenty-first century
15. Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.
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