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Extraterrestrial : the first sign of intelligent life beyond Earth

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  • Running Time: 07:07 hrs
    Narrator: Robert Petkoff
    Publisher:
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 07:07 hrs
    Narrator: Robert Petkoff
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    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Loeb, Abraham
    Contributor: Petkoff, Robert
    Date:
    Created
    2021
    Summary:

    In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Loeb showed it was not an asteroid; it was moving too fast along a strange orbit, and left no trail of gas or debris in its wake. There was only one conceivable explanation: the object was a piece of advanced technology created by a distant alien civilization. Here he outlines his controversial theory and its profound implications: for science, for religion, and for the future of our species and our planet.

    Contents:
    • Scout
    • The farm
    • Anomalies
    • StarChips
    • The lightsail hypothesis
    • Seashells and buoys
    • Learning from children
    • Vastness
    • Filters
    • Astro-archaeology
    • ʻOumuamua's wager
    • Seeds
    • Singularities.
    Genre:
    Math and science
    Subject(s): Extraterrestrial beings | Life on other planets
    Original Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780358278146, 0358278147