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5. A good book on the subject

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 08:16 PM

Dec 2011

by Stephen Webb
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... Where Is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to Fermi's Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

http://books.google.com/books/about/If_the_universe_is_teeming_with_aliens_w.html?id=-vZ0BVSHix4C

With fifty posited solutions each one spawning its own essay, it's fairly exhaustive. Recommended.

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Darwin's Extraterrestrials [View all] Swede Dec 2011 OP

That's what I would do. Camouflage myself. mainer Dec 2011 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Dec 2011 #2

We're already doing that... ElboRuum Dec 2011 #7

Well, assuming we all agree about the big bang as the starting point MarkCharles Dec 2011 #3

Not to mention interference... Humanist_Activist Dec 2011 #6

And compression and encryption make signals look like noise. nt bananas Dec 2011 #10

Or maybe they found some other way to communicate Confusious Dec 2011 #11

Certainly possible... Humanist_Activist Dec 2011 #13

My thinking also Confusious Dec 2011 #14

That's my take on it Dead_Parrot Dec 2011 #15

A good book on the subject pokerfan Dec 2011 #5

Sounds good. I just ordered it. n/t krispos42 Dec 2011 #8

Where is Everybody...Really? frogmarch Dec 2011 #9

Considering a Large portion of the population of this planet Confusious Dec 2011 #12

It is also possible that interstellar travel is harder than we think it is Motown_Johnny Dec 2011 #16

Nonsense. Orsino Dec 2011 #18