Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (762 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1681774410 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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To paraphrase the poet Robert Browning, humanity’s reach must exceed its grasp, or what are the heavens for?” - Nature (featured review)“An admiring, insightful biography. “Scoles’s conversational style and cultural references will appeal to the readers of Wired magazine. Tarter emerges as both heroic and all too human. Scoles has done her homework, so readers will both understand and sympathize with Tarter, who has become an icon and role model despite pursuing a goal she knows she will never achieve.” - Kirkus Reviews“Scoles shares the fantastic story of people willing to pursue a quixotic goal in the face of daunting odds.” - Publishers Weekly
In some ways, this is the question that keep us all up at night. Tarter’s life and her work are not just a quest to understand life in the universe: they are a quest to understand our lives within the universe. No one has told that story, her story, until now. All those stars were just distant sunswere any of them someone else's sun? Diving into the science, philosophy, and politics of SETIsearching for extraterrestrial intelligenceSarah Scoles reveals the fascinating figure at the center of the final frontier of scientific investigation. Today, her computer's screensaver is just the text “SO…ARE WE ALONE?” This question keeps her up at night. And she hasn’t stopped investigating a subject that takes and takes without giving much back. It all began with gazing into the night sky. 8 pages of color photographs. We have all spent dark hours wondering about our place in it all, pondering our "aloneness," both terrestrial and cosmic. For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" A brilliant examination of the science behind the searc
Sarah Scoles is a science writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Popular Science, Discover, New Scientist, Aeon, and Wired. . She lives in Denver, Colorado. A former editor at Astronomy magazine, Scoles worked at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the location of the first-ever SET
What did you accomplish today? Well you're not likely aiming high enough like Jill Tarter. No Justice, No Peace This book is a wonderful, provocative read. Just today I read ""peculiar' radio signals emerge from nearby star." Well I'm old enough to remember when “nearby” was much, much nearer than eleven light years away. The article is timely…The subject of the book Jill Tarter, Ph.D. was the former Director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Life institute (SETI). And she was instrumental in establishing the approaches used to assess odd signals like the one identified from the Arecibo Observatory mentioned above. . Robert A. Jones said You are looking in the wrong places. Making Contact does a nice job from a very narrow vantage point. That we have never been visited. Why listen for signals unless you have read everything there is to read and investigate if we have already been visited. I don't think this person has done any research on this.And there is nothing in the book to suggest she has. This does not make any sense as there is plenty of books and radar landing trace cases out there. Pretty hard to have an opinion on something she has done zero research on and totally ignores in the book