Aliens

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

By: Jim Al-Khalili

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith, Bruce Mann, Katharine Lee McEwan, Paul Michael, Kimberly Farr

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 E.T. (extraterrestrials); A.I. (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.


Read by Nicholas Guy Smith, Bruce Mann, Katharine McEwan, Paul Michael, and Kimberly Farr

Great.

Best thing I've listened to on audible 👍you wont be dissapointed if you are into SPACE STUFF

If we were the aliens, could we find ourselves?

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 This is an interesting book, but out of date.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.

Major Al-Khalili fan

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

Paradigm Shift towards "We Are Alone"

Any additional comments?

.. 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.

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

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!?!?