Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (742 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1426203926 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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He writes a monthly column on SPACE, and often lectures on his work at SETI. . Seth Shostak is a scientist, author, and frequent commentator on TV and radio. He lives in Palo Alto, California
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Shostak, senior astronomer for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, chronicles the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life in a venture that covers history, politics and funding, interviews with believers and non-believers (in both the religious and scientific sense), equipment and science, as well as typical sci-fi scenarios, all salted liberally with humor: "In most stories, space is just the Wild West without the dust where the bad guys are just like us, except for their obvious ne
About half of us believe that aliens really exist, and millions are convinced they’ve visited Earth.For twenty-five years, SETI has been looking for the proof, and as the program’s senior astronomer, Seth Shostak explains in this engrossing book, it’s entirely possible that before long conclusive evidence will be found.His informative, entertaining report offers an insider’s view of what we might realistically expect to discover light-years away among the stars. Whether they’ve arrived via rocket, flying saucer, or plain old teleportation, they’ve been invading, infiltrating, or inspiring us for decades, and they’ve fascinated moviegoers and television watchers for more than fifty years. Aliens are big in America. Neither humanoids nor monsters, says Shostak; in fact, biological intelligence is probably just a precursor to machine beings, enormously advanced artificial sentients whose capabilities and accomplishments may have developed over billions of years and far exceed our
"You must be from another planet if you don't like this book!" according to H. Duane Wadsworth. Dinosaurs and aliens? That's what most young people seem enchanted with. I'm over the dinosaur interest but aliens fascinate just about everybody, including me. This over-used and misunderstood concept, "aliens," isn't what interested me about Seth Shostak's book. The title, "Confessions of an Alien Hunter" is enough to make the curious buy. "Great Book with a a couple of curious omissions" according to Joseph Baneth Allen. While Seth Shostak has written an OUTSTANDING book about his years as a SETI researcher, there are a couple of curious omissions in his book: Professor Shostak doesn't tackle the so-called "WOW-Signal" in explaining what a shout-out from an ET might look like and why the "WOW-Signal" fails to meet the current critera for a valid SETI signal. SETI past, present and future An insightful, sharp-witted and thoroughly enjoyable read for astronomy geeks and biology geeks alike, written in a style that I'd describe as a mashup of Fred Hoyle and Douglas Adams.