Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Author:   John Gertz
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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Pages:   240
Publication Date:   29 October 2025
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Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence


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Author:   John Gertz
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9780197800416


ISBN 10:   0197800416
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   29 October 2025
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Fermi's Faux Paradox 2: Reconsidering a Sacred Cow: The Drake Equation 3: Standard Observational SETI: It's Time to Move On 4: What's There to Talk About Anyway? 5: METI: Beyond Folly to the Stupid, Arrogant, Delusional, and Downright Dangerous 6: Extraterrestrials Hit the Road-Or Not 7: There's No Place Like Home 8: Extraterrestrials Do Have a Solution: Robotic Probes 9: Humankind Is Utterly Unprepared: How Foolish Is That! 10: Getting Earth's Act Together by Act of Treaty Epilogue Index

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Millions have been enthralled by the SETI search for 'others' out there in the cosmos, especially since the film CONTACT. Less well-known are the arguments and outright tussles that have long roiled the field, which some have called a hybrid: half hard science and half wishful religion. John Gertz has seen it all, as an insider and as outsider gadfly. His insights and proposals will rock some of your assumptions about the search for tech-sapient life in the universe. - David Brin, PhD, Best-Selling Science Fiction Author


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John Gertz is a leader in the field of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, having served three terms as chairman of the board of the SETI institute and he currently serves as the only layman on the Breakthrough Listen Advisory Board. He has published a number of peer reviewed theoretic papers on the subject of SETI.

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