Making contact: Jill Tarter and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence [First Pegasus books edition] 9781681774411, 9781681774916, 1681774410, 9781681778020, 1681778025

Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren’t encourage

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English Pages 275 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm Year 2017

Table of contents :
How'd a nice girl like you get into a field like this? --
Babies, brown dwarfs, and big moves --
Making the Allen Telescope Array --
The future of the alien-hunting telescope --
A question for our time --
The politics of science and new projects --
The quest for contact --
the last chapter --
Extremophiles and exoplanets --
Shouting into the void --
A timeline of SETI.

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