Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2019-12-30
Chris Williamson & Keith Cooper: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #130
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?
Keith Cooper recommended Confessions of an Alien Hunter by Seth Shostak. Also mentioned: The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle and Contact by Carl Sagan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Confessions of an Alien Hunter
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”
Where to get it
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The Black Cloud
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”
Where to get it
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Contact
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”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Contact Paradox
“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”