Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2019-12-30
Books mentioned on The Contact Paradox: Where Are All The Aliens? - Keith Cooper - #130
Keith Cooper is the Editor of Astronomy Now and an author. Why is searching for aliens so hard?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Confessions of an Alien Hunter
Confessions of an Alien Hunter by Seth Shostak is an engaging exploration of the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence, written by a prominent senior astronomer at the SETI Institute.
Recommended“Seth Shostak and the SETI Institute is the senior astronomer there any work he wrote a great book called confessions of an alien hunt and his stats it out in the first chapter”
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The Black Cloud
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle is a classic 1957 hard science fiction novel by the renowned astronomer that depicts a massive, intelligent interstellar gas cloud entering our solar system and cutting off sunlight, leading to catastrophic global cooling.
Discussed“or I don't know any kind of aid from Andromeda scenario if anybody's seen that old science fiction series basically anybody who doesn't know it was written by Fred Hoyle the astrophysicist in the 1960s and it depicts scientists detected no signal another planet”
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Contact
Contact by Carl Sagan is a celebrated science fiction novel that chronicles humanity's first verified encounter with an extraterrestrial intelligence through the efforts of dedicated radio astronomer Ellie Arroway.
Discussed“on the other hand you've got Carl Sagan's contact where the signal was to build an apparatus you know again what's it going to do Oh it was to transport humans to them”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“so we're talking about the contact paradox today which is your new book and it's all about this search for extraterrestrial intelligence and messages from the sky”