Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (835 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MSN0IYM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 525 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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What did you accomplish today? Well you're not likely aiming high enough like Jill Tarter. This book is a wonderful, provocative read. Just today I read ""peculiar' radio signals emerge from nearby star." Well I'm old enough to remember when “nearby” was much, much nearer than eleven light years away. The article is timely…The subject of the book Jill Tarter, . Robert A. Jones said You are looking in the wrong places. Making Contact does a nice job from a very narrow vantage point. That we have never been visited. Why listen for signals unless you have read everything there is to read and investigate if we have already been visited. I don't think this person has done any research on this.And there is no
And she hasn’t stopped investigating a subject that takes and takes without giving much back.Today, her computer's screensaver is just the text “SO…ARE WE ALONE?” This question keeps her up at night. At a time when women weren’t encouraged to do much outside the home, Tarter ventured as far out as she could—into the three-Kelvin cold of deep space. In some ways, this is the question that keep us all up at night. This is the perfect book for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if we are alone in the universe.. For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" A brilliant examination of the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and its pioneer, Jill Tarter, the inspiration for the main character in Carl Sagan's Contact.Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. Tarter’s life and her work are not just a quest to understand life in the universe: they are a quest to understand our lives within the universe. No one has told that story, her story, until now.It all began with gazing into the night sky. We have all spent dark hours wondering about our place in it all, pondering our "aloneness," both terrestrial and cosmic. All those stars were just distant suns—were any of them someone else's sun? Diving into the science, philosophy, an
Scoles has done her homework, so readers will both understand and sympathize with Tarter, who has become an icon and role model despite pursuing a goal she knows she will never achieve.” - Kirkus Reviews“Scoles shares the fantastic story of people willing to pursue a quixotic goal in the face of daunting odds.” - Publishers Weekly. Tarter emerges as both heroic and all too human. To paraphrase the poet Robert Browning, humanity’s reach must exceed its grasp, or what are the heavens for?” - Nature (featured review)“An admiring, insightful biography. “Scoles’s conversational style and cultural references will appeal to the readers of Wired magazine
. A former editor at Astronomy magazine, Scoles worked at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the location of the first-ever SETI project. She lives in Denver, Colorado. Sarah Scoles is a science writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Popular Science, Discover, New Scientist, Aeon, and Wired