The Contact Paradox

Author : Keith Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472960440
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contact Paradox written by Keith Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will happen if (perhaps when) humanity makes contact with another civilisation on a different planet? 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 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 of contact. In The Contact Paradox, author Keith Cooper looks at how far SETI has come since its modest beginnings, and where it is going, by speaking to the leading names in the field and beyond. SETI forces us to confront our nature in a way that we seldom have before – where did we come from, where are we going, and who are we in the cosmic context of things? This book considers the assumptions that we make in our search for extraterrestrial life, and explores how those assumptions can teach us about ourselves.

Author : Keith Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Sigma
ISBN 13 : 9781472960412
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Contact written by Keith Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Sigma. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472960436
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contact Paradox written by Keith Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 of contact. We look for qualities such as altruism and intelligence in extraterrestrial life, but what do these mean to humankind? Can civilisations survive in the Universe long enough for us to detect them, and what can their existence, or lack thereof, reveal to us about our future prospects? Can we learn something about our own history when we explore what happens when two civilisations come into contact? Finally, do the answers tell us that it is safe to transmit, even though we know nothing about extraterrestrial life, or as Stephen Hawking argued, are we placing humanity in jeopardy by doing so? In The Contact Paradox , author Keith Cooper looks at how far SETI has come since its modest beginnings, and where it is going, by speaking to the leading names in the field and beyond. SETI forces us to confront our nature in a way that we seldom have before - where did we come from, where are we going, and who are we in the cosmic context of things? This book considers the assumptions that we make in our search for extraterrestrial life, and explores how those assumptions can teach us about ourselves."--

Author : Michael Bohlander
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004677704
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law written by Michael Bohlander and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is statistically unlikely that humans are the only intelligent species in the universe. Nothing about the others will be known until contact is made beyond a radio signal from space that merely tells us they existed when it was sent. That contact may occur tomorrow, in a hundred years, or never. If it does it will be a high-risk scenario for humanity. It may be peaceful or hostile. Relying on alien altruism and benign intentions is wishful thinking. We need to begin identifying as a planetary species, and develop a global consensus on how to respond in either scenario.

Author : Lester Frank Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamic Sociology written by Lester Frank Ward and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lester Frank Ward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
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Download or read book Dynamic Sociology, Or Applied Social Science written by Lester Frank Ward and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York State Museum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report written by New York State Museum and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These reports are made up of the reports of the director, geologist, paleontologist, botanist and entomologist, and museum Bulletins and Memoirs, issued as advance sections of the reports." N.Y. State Museum. Bulletin 66, p. 241.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 980 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the New York State Museum written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Popoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781523264469
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fermi Paradox: 100 Solutions and the Survival of Mankind written by Alexander Popoff and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents hundred solutions to the Fermi paradox. The universe is very big and very old, why aren't the aliens here already? Why don't we observe activities of extraterrestrial civilizations in the space? For the mega-civilizations, we are like a Monopoly game on the table, next to the sandwiches and the beer: we are totally visible, accessible, manipulable, and contactable. Why don't superior intelligences contact us in an open manner or officially? They have their good reasons for not doing what we expect from them, which the author explains in this book. We are eagerly waiting for a contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. But what would be the result of an alien visit or attack? There is no need for an alien civilization to be evil in order to destroy us or to inhibit our development turning us into agrarian societies. An extraterrestrial contact could destroy us unintentionally in many ways: as the result of technological and biological accidents or mistakes on the part of the crew or the intelligent machines. Alien visitors could fatally contaminate with extraterrestrial microbes all humans accidentally. Fundamental scientific experiments or grand-scale industrial catastrophes of an alien civilization far away from Earth could delete numerous space races, including our own. Existential risks are those that threaten to destroy the whole population of our civilization or severely reduce its capacity, preventing its normal further development. The extraterrestrial civilizations are among the existential risks for humans. Colonization probes of a biological or machine alien civilization could start massively extracting natural resources and building facilities on the Moon and on Mars. The aliens would not attack or threaten us directly, but humanity would lose the Moon and Mars, which we consider as belonging to us, and which are the next vital step for our space programs. We plan to start human space colonization from the Moon and Mars. Not having the Moon and Mars would be like clipping the space wings of humanity. Stephen Hawking stated, "I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet." Aliens could deny us a future. Scholars still cannot answer these grand questions: Do we live in a designer Universe? Are we subject to designer evolution? Are we a designer civilization? Who or what is the designer, and what are his plans? The true resolution of the Fermi paradox depends on the proper answer of these questions.

Author : Lester Frank Ward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamic Sociology written by Lester Frank Ward and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: