TY - BOOK ID - 4803688 TI - Contact with alien civilizations : our hopes and fears about encountering extraterrestrials PY - 2007 SN - 9780387686189 0387285989 9780387285986 1441921079 9786612823688 0387686185 128282368X PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Popular Science. KW - Popular Science in Astronomy. KW - Astrobiology. KW - Philosophy of Man. KW - Sociology. KW - Science (General). KW - Philosophy. KW - Astronomy. KW - Philosophie KW - Astronomie KW - Sociologie KW - Human-alien encounters. KW - Human-alien encounters KW - Extraterrestrial beings KW - Social Sciences KW - Astronomy & Astrophysics KW - Astronomy - General KW - Astronomical Observatories & Instruments KW - Parapsychology & Occult Sciences KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Extraterrestrial beings. KW - Alien beings (Extraterrestrials) KW - Aliens (Extraterrestrial beings) KW - Extraterrestrial intelligence KW - Extraterrestrials KW - Alien encounters with humans KW - Alien-human contacts KW - Alien-human encounters KW - Close encounters of the third kind KW - Contacts of humans with extraterrestrial beings KW - Encounters of humans with extraterrestrial beings KW - Extraterrestrial encounters with humans KW - Extraterrestrial-human encounters KW - Human-alien contacts KW - Human contacts with extraterrestrial beings KW - Human encounters with extraterrestrial beings KW - Popular works. KW - Sociology, general. KW - Life on other planets KW - Unidentified flying objects KW - Sightings and encounters KW - Mental philosophy KW - Humanities KW - Astrobiology KW - Biology KW - Habitable planets KW - Life KW - Origin KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4803688 AB - This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn. As necessary background, the book also includes brief summaries of the history of thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence, searches for life and for signals, contrasting paradigms of how contact might take place, and the paradox that those paradigms allegedly create. ER -