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The eerie silence : searching for ourselves in the universe / Paul Davies.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
576.839 DAV	Adult Non Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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ISBN	9780141037783 (pbk.)
ISBN	0141037784 (pbk.)
Name	Davies, P. C. W. (Paul Charles William), 1946- author.
Title	The eerie silence : searching for ourselves in the universe / Paul Davies.
Published	London Penguin, 2011.
Description	xiii, 241 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Notes	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	For fifty years the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the skies. Now Davies, head of SETI's Post-Detection Task Group, with 'a rare talent for making physics mind-bogglingly vivid and exciting' (Times Higher Education), explores what the mysterious silence it has so far encountered could mean. Here he looks at exciting new ways to make contact with extra-terrestrial life. He considers what form advanced alien intelligence is likely to take if it exists. And more importantly, what exactly it would mean if it didn't - how extraordinary it would be if we were alone, to be human and here in this staggering, eerie silence ...
Subjects	Life on other planets
	Extraterrestrial beings
	Unidentified flying objects
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Extraterrestrial beings . Life on other planets . Unidentified flying objects . See Also: Planets . Aeronautics . Astronautics . Broader Subject References: Life on other planets . Narrower Subject References: Extraterrestrial beings. . Authors: Davies, P. C. W. (Paul Charles William), 1946- .