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Uno Strano Silenzio (2012)

by Paul Davies(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8875782660 (ISBN13: 9788875782665)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Codice Edizioni

review 1: A clear and well-written evaluation of where we stand after 50 years of SETI. Unfortunately, and despite the author's optimism, the answer must be no further on than when we started. If anything, the evidence gathered over the last 50 years makes it less likely that there are many technological civilisations out there. In fact, we could well be the only one. The gap between non-living matter and living things has widened considerably since the optimism engendered by the Miller-Urey experiments (although Davies makes a good case for looking for second-start life forms right here on earth). Even should that gulf be somehow bridged, there's still the Needham question (which Davies does not seem to have heard of): why of all the civilisations on earth did only the European one... more conceive and execute a scientific society? Scientists, being scientists, of course tend to think they are inevitable - I am less sure of that.
review 2: My friend, Morgan, has been talking about this book for weeks, and with good reason. It's a fascinating exploration of the search for alien intelligence, both the history of how and why we been looking in the ways we have, and what we've found (or not found); and a discussion of why this might be the wrong way of thinking about it. He offers some interesting ideas about what alien intelligence might be like and how we might best look for them. less

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