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100 1 $aScoles, Sarah,$eauthor.
245 10 $aMaking contact :$bJill Tarter and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence /$cSarah Scoles.
250 $aFirst Pegasus books edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPegasus Books,$c2017.
264 4 $cỨ́2017
300 $a275 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index.
505 0 $aHow'd a nice girl like you get into a field like this? -- Babies, brown dwarfs, and big moves -- Making the Allen Telescope Array -- The future of the alien-hunting telescope -- A question for our time -- The politics of science and new projects -- The quest for contact -- the last chapter -- Extremophiles and exoplanets -- Shouting into the void -- A timeline of SETI.
520 $a"Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren't encouraged to do much outside the home, Tarter ventured as far out as she could -- into the three-Kelvin cold of deep space. And she hasn't stopped investigating a subject that takes and takes without giving much back. Today, her computer's screensaver is just the text "SO ... ARE WE ALONE?" This question keeps her up at night. In some ways, this is the question that keep us all up at night. We have all spent dark hours wondering about our place in it all, pondering our "aloneness," both terrestrial and cosmic. Tarter's life and her work are not just a quest to understand life in the universe: they are a quest to understand our lives within the universe. No one has told that story, her story, until now. It all began with gazing into the night sky. All those stars were just distant suns-were any of them someone else's sun? Diving into the science, philosophy, and politics of SETI - searching for extraterrestrial intelligence - Sarah Scoles reveals the fascinating figure at the center of the final frontier of scientific investigation. This is the perfect book for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if we are alone in the universe."--$cFrom Amazon.
600 10 $aTarter, Jill C.
610 20 $aSearch for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Study group : U.S.)
650 0 $aExtraterrestrial beings$xResearch.
650 0 $aWomen astronomers$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 1 $aExtraterrestrial beings$xResearch.
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