Book
Making contact : Jill Tarter and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence / Sarah Scoles.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781681774411 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 275 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Pegasus Books edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2017.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index. |
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| Subject: | Tarter, Jill C. Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Study group : U.S.) Interstellar communication. Life on other planets. Women astronomers > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 520.92 Tarte-S | 31681010061794 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
An examination of the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and how it has shaped modern understandings about humanity's role in the universe also shares insights into where SETI is today and how it is influenced by political and philosophical dynamics. - WW Norton
Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women werenât encouraged to do much outside the home, Tarter ventured as far out as she couldâinto the three-Kelvin cold of deep space. And she hasnât stopped investigating a subject that takes and takes without giving much back.Today, her computer's screensaver is just the text âSOâ¦ARE WE ALONE?â This question keeps her up at night. In some ways, this is the question that keep us all up at night. We have all spent dark hours wondering about our place in it all, pondering our "aloneness," both terrestrial and cosmic. Tarterâs 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.It all began with gazing into the night sky. All those stars were just distant sunsâwere any of them someone else's sun? Diving into the science, philosophy, and politics of SETIâsearching for extraterrestrial intelligenceâSarah Scoles reveals the fascinating figure at the center of the final frontier of scientific investigation. This is the perfect book for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if we are alone in the universe. - WW Norton
For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" A brilliant examination of the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and its pioneer, Jill Tarter, the inspiration for the main character in Carl Sagan's Contact.
