Episode · StarTalk Radio · 2024-09-24
Books mentioned on Scientists Discuss NASA’s Strategy For Finding Alien Life in the Universe
Mentioned: Contact by Carl Sagan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Contact
Contact by Carl Sagan is a classic science fiction novel that chronicles humanity's first detected radio signal from an extraterrestrial civilization and the subsequent efforts to build a machine to meet them.
Discussed“And that fact was preserved in his novel Contact when the screen version, at least, you don't see the aliens at all!”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Welcome to the Universe
“I love it just a quick thing in in in a book I co-published a few years ago with two fellow professors we co-taught a course at Princeton uh it's and it's called Welcome to the universe we actually give the latest estimate there of the number of technologically capable civilizations in the Galaxy”
Plugged Chasing new horizons
“chasing New Horizons with Alan stern oh both of you together on that excellent and and the subtitle was oh oh gosh you want to remember the subtitle it was no in inside chasing New Horizons inside the Epic first mission to Pluto”