Interstellar : : the Search for Extraterrestrial Life and our Future in the Stars

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Call Number: 576.839 Lo, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Astronomy / Loeb, Avi
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Ascending the ladder of civilizations -- The dawn of our interstellar future -- New telescopes for extraterrestrials -- The messenger -- Leaving Earth -- Knowledge and wisdom -- Survival of the optimists -- Our technological future -- Noah's spacecraft -- The cosmic ladder.
"How do we prepare ourselves for interaction with interstellar extraterrestrial civilization? How can our species become interstellar? Now [author Abraham] Loeb tackles these questions in a revelatory, powerful call to arms that reimagines the idea of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. Dismantling our science-fiction fueled visions of a human and alien life encounter, Interstellar provides a realistic and practical blueprint for how such an interaction might actually occur, resetting our cultural understanding and expectation of what it means to identify an extraterrestrial object. From awe-inspiring searches for extraterrestrial technology, to the heated debate of the existence of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Loeb provides a thrilling, front-row view of the monumental progress in science and technology currently preparing us for contact. He also lays out the profound implications of becoming—or not becoming—interstellar; in an urgent, eloquent appeal for more proactive engagement with the world beyond ours, he powerfully contends why we must seek out other life forms, and in the process, choose who and what we are within the universe....Interstellar revolutionizes the approach to our search for extraterrestrial life and our preparation for its discovery. In this eye-opening, necessary look at our future, Avi Loeb artfully and expertly raises some of the most important questions facing us as humans, and proves, once again, that scientific curiosity is the key to our survival." --publisher's website.

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