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Extraterrestrial : the first sign of intelligent life beyond Earth

Avi Loeb, Author | [S.l.] : Houghton Mifflin Company | 2021

"Harvard's top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star"-- In late 2017 scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our i[...]

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The zoologist's guide to the galaxy : what animals on earth reveal about aliens--and ourselves

Arik Kershenbaum, Author | New York : Penguin Press | 2021

From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the unive[...]

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Astrobiology, discovery, and societal impact

Steven J. Dick, Author | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | 2018

Winner of the 2019 AAP (Association of American Publishers) cosmology and astronomy award. New discoveries in astrobiology, including thousands of planets around distant stars, have increased the likelihood of finding life beyond Earth. Astrono[...]

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The Drake equation : estimating the prevalence of extraterrestrial life through the ages /

Douglas A. Vakoch, Author ; Matthew F. Dowd, Author | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge astrobiology | 2015

"In this compelling book, leading scientists and historians explore the Drake Equation, which guides modern astrobiology's search for life beyond Earth. First used in 1961 as the organising framework for a conference in Green Bank, West Virginia[...]

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Extraterrestrial altruism : evolution and ethics in the cosmos /

Douglas A. Vakoch, Editor | Cham : Springer | Frontiers collection | 2014

The book examines the basic assumption of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI): that extraterrestrials will be tranmitting messages to us for our benefit.

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Civilizations beyond earth : extraterrestrial life and society

Douglas A. Vakoch, Editor ; Albert A. Harrison, Editor | New York : Berghahn Books | 2011

How will humankind respond to first contact? Archaeologists and astronomers explore the likehood that extraterrestrial intelligence exists, sociologists present the latest findings of novel surveys, tapping into the public's attitudes about lif[...]

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Super 8

Jeffrey Abrams, Producer ; Steven Spielberg, Producer | [S.l.] : Paramount Home Entertainment | 2011

In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witnesses a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon they suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events beg[...]

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Avatar

James Cameron, Producer | [S.l.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2010

Jake Sully is a former Marine who uses a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that[...]

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E.T. talk : how will we communicate with intelligent life on other worlds?

Fernando J. Ballesteros, Author | New York, NY : Springer | 2010

If we do discover intelligent life elsewhere, how will we communicate with it? Are there some "universal" methods of communication we can use? Is music or mathematics a universal language? Are there alien intelligences right here on Earth we can[...]

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District 9

Peter Jackson, Producer | United States : Tri-Star Pictures | 2009

Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like [...]

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Contact with alien civilizations : our hopes and fears about encountering extraterrestrials

Michael A.G. Michaud | New York, NY : Springer | 2007

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The thing

John Carpenter, Producer | [S.l.] : Universal | 1998

Set in the winter of 1982 at a research station in Antarctica, a twelve man research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has remained buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Unfrozen and unleashed, the THING creates hav[...]

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