Summary
Lawrence Krauss wrote that the discovery of extraterrestrial life "would he far more jolting-and not just to orthodox Christians-than was the revelation that the Earth is not the center of the solar system." The search for extraterrestrial intelligence started at about the same time as the search for artificial intelligence (here on Earth. beginning in 1956).
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The Anxious Search: Are We Alone?
SECOND STORY BOOKS IN BETUESDA has a good selection of out-of-print science hooks and I drop by from time to time. I was surprised to find recently that they had a whole shelf of books about the search for extraterrestrial life. Here are just some of the titles, all published in the 1990s:
We Are Not Alone (1903), Are We Alone? (1995), Are We Alone in the Cosmos? (1999), Is Anyone Out There? (1992)...See the full content of this document
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