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Contact with Alien Civilizations

Michael Michaud
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      This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn. The book emphasizes the consequences of contact rather than the search, and takes account of popular views. As necessary background, the book also includes brief summaries of the history of thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence, searches for life and for signals, contrasting paradigms of how contact might take place, and the paradox that those paradigms allegedly create.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Michaud EAN: 9781441921079 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 724 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-10-18 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / General, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Sociology, Astronomy, space and time, Biology, life sciences, Philosophy of mind

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      Michael Michaud served as Director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Advanced Technology and as Counselor for Science, Technology, and Environment at the American embassies in Paris and Tokyo. He led the negotiation of international agreements, played an active role in reviving U.S.-Soviet space cooperation, represented foreign policy interests in interagency discussions of U.S. space policy, and testified before Congress on space-related issues. He has published thirty articles and papers on the implications of contact, as well as sixty articles on other subjects and the book, Reaching for the High Frontier: The American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-1984.
      This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn. The book emphasizes the consequences of contact rather than the search, and takes account of popular views. As necessary background, the book also includes brief summaries of the history of thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence, searches for life and for signals, contrasting paradigms of how contact might take place, and the paradox that those paradigms allegedly create.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Michaud EAN: 9781441921079 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 724 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-10-18 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / General, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Sociology, Astronomy, space and time, Biology, life sciences, Philosophy of mind

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      Michael Michaud served as Director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Advanced Technology and as Counselor for Science, Technology, and Environment at the American embassies in Paris and Tokyo. He led the negotiation of international agreements, played an active role in reviving U.S.-Soviet space cooperation, represented foreign policy interests in interagency discussions of U.S. space policy, and testified before Congress on space-related issues. He has published thirty articles and papers on the implications of contact, as well as sixty articles on other subjects and the book, Reaching for the High Frontier: The American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-1984.

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