Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Storm Dunlop
Out of Print
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists, then positive detection of it would be the greatest scientific discovery of all time. By what criteria should we judge if we are alone in the cosmos, and how should we set about detecting extraterrestrials? Jean Heidmann and Strom Dunlop answers these questions in this engaging discussion of extraterrestrial intelligence. The authors shows how planets fit into the hierarchy of the Universe, and discuss prebiotic stages of life, and the emergence of primitive biological life in the solar system. From this base the entire subject of extraterrestrials is explained: techniques and the results of projects, the expansion of searches for extraterrestrials, the habitable zones in our universe, and what might happen if actual contact takes place. This is a lively account, written at a level suitable for general readership.
- Details the quest for extraterrestrial life, from organic molecules in comets, to bacteria on Mars, to possible civilizations situated in other star systems
- A serious, though lively account of the search for life in the cosmos, by a professional in the field
- Positive detection would be the greatest scientific discovery of all time
Product details
November 1995Hardback
9780521453400
268 pages
236 × 158 × 22 mm
0.55kg
4 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
- Part I. The Bioastronomical Project:
- 1. The cosmic stage
- 2. The organic stage
- 3. The prebiotic stage
- 4. The primitive biological stage
- Part II. Extreterrestrials:
- 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
- Epilogue.
