Reinventing SETI
New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 October 2025
- ISBN 9780197800416
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 240x166x26 mm
- Weight 458 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 35 figures 700
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Short description:
Reinventing SETI clears out the cobwebs of outdated or wrongheaded SETI paradigms such as Fermi's Paradox, the Drake Equation, and METI (i.e., proactively sending signals from Earth to putative aliens). It argues that scientists should approach the pursuit of extraterrestrials (ETs) in a more effective manner. Author John Gertz states that ETs, as biological lifeforms themselves, cannot accomplish interstellar travel, but have instead placed robotic probes throughout the universe, perhaps even in our own Solar System. Humorous and deeply informative, this book takes the reader through the universe, conventional SETI methods, and ideas on future ET exploration.
MoreLong description:
For millennia, humanity has looked up at the sprawling tapestry of stars and wondered what lay beyond. With time, we learned that each star is not a pinprick point in a domed sky, but a massive plasma sphere so far away that the distance becomes incomprehensible to the human mind, measured in light years of millions and billions. This distance invokes crucial questions. Do we share the universe with other intelligent lifeforms? If so, how do we approach the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)? Lastly, do we need to examine our assumptions about extraterrestrial intelligence?
Reinventing SETI clears out the cobwebs of outdated or wrongheaded SETI paradigms such as Fermi's Paradox, the Drake Equation, and METI (i.e., proactively sending signals from Earth to putative aliens). It argues that scientists should approach the pursuit of extraterrestrials (ETs) in a more effective manner. Author John Gertz states that ETs, as biological lifeforms themselves, cannot accomplish interstellar travel, but have instead placed robotic probes throughout the universe, perhaps even in our own Solar System. Gertz also warns that humankind is woefully unprepared for the day of First Contact with an alien probe right here in our own backyard. He suggests contingency planning, involving international cooperation as well as broad cross-disciplinary expertise.
Humorous and deeply informative, this book takes the reader through the universe, conventional SETI methods, ideas on future ET exploration, and a discussion on who else shares this space.
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
Table of Contents:
07/04/2025
Introduction
Fermi's Faux Paradox
Reconsidering a Sacred Cow: The Drake Equation
Standard Observational SETI: It's Time to Move On
What's There to Talk About Anyway?
METI: Beyond Folly to the Stupid, Arrogant, Delusional, and Downright Dangerous
Extraterrestrials Hit the Road-Or Not
There's No Place Like Home
Extraterrestrials Do Have a Solution: Robotic Probes
Humankind Is Utterly Unprepared: How Foolish Is That!
Getting Earth's Act Together by Act of Treaty
Epilogue
Index
