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Aliens

The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

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Aliens

De: Jim Al-Khalili
Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith, Bruce Mann, Katharine Lee McEwan, Paul Michael, Kimberly Farr
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In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to ET (extraterrestrials); AI (artificial intelligence); and SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence). The debate has intensified over whether life exists outside our solar system, what that life would look like, and whether we'll ever make contact.

Included in this audiobook are essays from a broad spectrum of the scientific community: cosmologists, astrophysicists, NASA planetary scientists, and geneticists, to name just a few, discussing the latest research and theories relating to alien life. Some of the topics include: If life exists somewhere in space, what are the odds that it evolves into something we would recognize as intelligent? What will space travel look like in the future, and will it all be done by cyborg technology? How long until we are ruled by robot overlords? (This is actually a serious consideration.) Are we simply a simulation in the mind of some supreme being acting out a virtual reality game?

For those who have ever wondered, Is there anybody out there? here are the latest theories and evidence that move us closer to answering that question.

©2017 Jim Al-Khalili (P)2017 Random House Audio
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Best thing I've listened to on audible 👍you wont be dissapointed if you are into SPACE STUFF

Great.

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When we invented radio and television, we used brute force, 50,000 watt transmitters, That only lasted seventy years or so. Now, we broadcast into cable systems that don't re-radiate into space. Our cellphones only reach about a mile before the transmissions enter another network of non-radiating cables. We wonder where are all the aliens? Why can't we hear their radio and TV transmissions? They are most likely doing what we are doing... making their transmissions more efficient... and more quiet. This is an interesting book, but out of date. Arecibo was a working facility when it was written. Now, Arecibo is collapsed rubble in an overgrown, Puerto Rican valley. Like NASA, American Government Funded Science quit working 30 years ago. We better reboot and retool, or the next aliens will find us, and they will be from an unfriendly country on this Earth.

If we were the aliens, could we find ourselves?

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.. a nice potpourri of ideas & approaches towards a the topic of "ALIENS" ( and LIFE in general !!! ) One Chapter ( I think it is #14) just killed it for me. I couldn't believe what I read /heard and after some fact checking I am convinced more than ever that we are alone.

Paradigm Shift towards "We Are Alone"

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Good info and solid science, gets you thinking about how small we really are in this universe....a spec on a rock circling a star in a sea of other stars with their circling rocks all rotating around a black hole, but wait...there are billions and billions more all doing the same thing too?!?! What a sick joke...space has too much space in between for us to travel or even try to communicate with any other life.
The big question is...where did this all come from, smart people back track things using evidence dug up along with some smart science but what was here before the Big Bang and what made the Big Bang happen!?!? Who or what made space and everything in it!?!?

Space...................lots of space in space

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Loved the chapters and the explanations. Works like these make one sit and reflect upon human nature and inquire more.

Major Al-Khalili fan

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I enjoyed this book. Most of it is related to the fact that we have no idea how life came about and how impossible it is by chance. Not one of the essays bring up the obvious answer that the universe was created by God. The authors make various attempts to bring chance and random factors into play to explain life but these do more to point to the impossibility of life occuring that way. I would have liked to have an essay on John 1:1-5 and how the existence of an all powerful, all knowing God is the only explanation of how all the perfect "coincidences" of the universe fit together. This book brought to mind the way ancient astronomers tried to make the earth centered universe fit into their observations of the movement of the actual universe. This book has strengthened my belief in God. If there is extraterrestrial life in the universe He put it there not chance.

Very good book on the improbability of life. Misses the obvious.

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I was expecting much more from this collection which left me somewhat let down hence the three stars instead of four. The material covered is informative and engaging. The short by Davies was nowhere nearly as good as his full length books but it was a nice little read. I was really annoyed by the author that dogged Prometheus because I loved the film and found it very entertaining. There wasn't any new ideas that I picked up from this book that I hadn't picked up in other books I've already read. If you are not that well informed on the subject matter then this book may be right for you but if you already have an intermediate level of competency on the subject then there will be nothing new here for you.

a good collection on alien subject matter

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If you could sum up Aliens in three words, what would they be?

Intriguing, worrying, and frustrating. The first two are both meant in a good way. For an explanation of the last, see below.

What did you like best about this story?

The realism w/ regard to the likelihood of alien civilizations.

What does the narrators bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The ability to consume the book while driving? For something like this, audiobook format is probably objectively worse.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No.

Any additional comments?

A significant portion of Chapter 14 (Chapter 15 in the audible file) is devoted to arguing that eukaryotes/eukaryote-equivalents are likely quite rare because endosymbiosis has only occurred once (Mitochondria). After five minutes of building on that argument (during which I was getting angrier and angrier) the author of that chapter admits that it has actually occurred twice (the second time being Chloroplasts), which completely undermines the prior five minutes *and is still wrong.* Endosymbiosis of cyanobacteria, creating chloroplasts, has happened at least twice that we know of, and it may well have occurred more times than that.

I guess I'm just frustrated they wasted so much time and space on a crappy argument for the lack of complex life on other planets, and that they oversold it so badly.

Very Interesting; Poorly Fact-Checked

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I enjoyed it and learned so much about a subject I am interested in. All the various Authors who contributed gave a up to date and explanation of the field they covered. I found it fascinating and educational. I love to read books by science explainers even though it is sometimes above my technical level.

The best description and explanations I have read

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I should've written something about this book sooner, but I found this book to be thoroughly enjoyable for so many reasons. I really liked some of the break downs on why aliens may decide to come to our planet, the discussion of what movies get things right and wrong as well as some of the more technical discussions. Overall super interesting.

Really good book

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