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The great silence : the science and philosophy of Fermi's paradox / Milan M. Ćirković

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018Description: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)ISBN:
  • 0192552864
  • 9780192552860
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 0199646309 | 9780199646302 | Erscheint auch als: The great silence. Druck-Ausgabe First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018. xxvii, 395 SeitenDDC classification:
  • 576.8/39
RVK: RVK: US 9800 | UB 6000 | UB 2580LOC classification:
  • QB54
Online resources: Summary: 3.9 The Drake Equation, for Good or Bad3.10 Let the Games Begin!; Chapter 4. L'Année dernière à Marienbad: Solipsist Solutions; 4.1 Down with Realism!; 4.2 Saucers, Utensils, and Other UFOs; 4.3 Special Creation; 4.4 Zoos, Interdicts, Dogs, and the Mind of Newton; 4.5 Living in a Planetarium-or a SimCity; 4.6 Directed Panspermia: Are We the Aliens?; 4.7 A New Cosmogony?; 4.8 A Solipsist Résumé; Chapter 5. Terra Nostra: 'Rare Earth' and Related Solutions; 5.1 Down with Copernicanism!; 5.2 Modern Rare-Earth Hypotheses; 5.3 Gaia or Bust?; 5.4 An Adaptationist Solution?Summary: 5.5 Unphysical Ceteris Paribus, and Other Problems5.6 A Rare-Earthist Résumé; Chapter 6. At the Mountains of Madness: Neocatastrophic Solutions; 6.1 Down with Gradualism!; 6.2 Natural Hazards I: Random Delays; 6.3 Natural Hazards II: Synchronized Delays; 6.4 Intentional Hazards I: Self-Destruction; 6.5 Intentional Hazards II: Self-Limitation; 6.6 Intentional Hazards III: Deadly Probes and Unstable Equilibria; 6.7 Transcendence, Transcension, and Related Scenarios; 6.8 A Neocatastrophist Résumé; Chapter 7. The Cities of the Red Night: Logistic Solutions; 7.1 Down with '-Ism'!; 7.2 Wrong Tree?Summary: 7.3 Persistence7.4 Migrations: To the Galactic Rim and Beyond; 7.5 Sustainability; 7.6 Metabolic Problems and Digital Indulgence; 7.7 A Logistic Résumé; Chapter 8. The Tournament; 8.1 A Table Too Large?; 8.2 Manifestations, Artefacts, and Detectability; 8.3 No Small Prices To Pay?; 8.4 The 'Great Filter' Redux; Chapter 9. The Last Challenge For Copernicanism?; 9.1 Copernicanism Once Again; 9.2 The Importance of Being Postbiological; 9.3 Radical Departures: Distributed Computing, Star Universe Maker, and the New Cosmogony Revisited; 9.4 Fermi's Paradox as a Successful ProvocationSummary: The Great Silence explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question "Where is everybody?" In many respects, Fermi's paradox is the richest and the most challenging problem for the entire field of astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) studies. This book shows how Fermi's paradox is intricately connected with many fields of learning, technology, arts, and even everyday life. It aims to establish the strongest possible version of the problem, to dispel many related confusions, obfuscations, and prejudices, as well as to offer a novel point of entry to the many solutions proposed in existing literature. 'Cirković argues that any evolutionary worldview cannot avoid resolving the Great Silence problem in one guise or anotherPPN: PPN: 1026380715Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-4-NLEBK | ZDB-4-EBA
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