Alfredo, Paul, List, I can suggest two recent (within a few decades) books on the whole question of Extraterrestial contact: "If the Universe is Teeming With Aliens, Where Is Every- body?" (2002) by Stephen Webb, presents in detail the arguments for 50 different explanations for the apparent lack of evidence for aliens everywhere (or anywhere).
He has a website: <http://stephenwebb.info/category/fermi-paradox/> A history of recent searches and searchers is: "Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars," by Lee Billings" (2013). Even that title seems mournful to me... Sterling Webb _________________________ From: Meteorite-list [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alfredo Petrov via Meteorite-list Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2017 7:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What Happens If China Makes First Contact? Let's hope that no one ever makes contact, because it would be a disaster for one of the parties, us or them. In first contacts between cultures, the less developed one is usually destroyed, if not by violence then by inferiority complexes, addictions and other mental issues. Making contact with an alien culture that is just coincidentally at the same technological level as us would be so improbable as to be in the realm of religious hope rather than reality. On 19 November 2017 at 02:02, Roman Jirasek via Meteorite-list <[email protected]> wrote: As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence . . . Maybe because they already found it years ago!? Roman From: Paul via Meteorite-list Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 10:11 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [meteorite-list] What Happens If China Makes First Contact? What Happens If China Makes First Contact? As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world's largest radio dish for precisely that purpose. The Atlantic, Ross Andersen, December 2017 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/what-happens-if-china-m akes-first-contact/544131/ <https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/what-happens-if-china- makes-first-contact/544131/> https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/what-happens-if-china-makes-first-cont act-the-atlantic-ross-andersen <https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/what-happens-if-china-makes-first-con tact-the-atlantic-ross-andersen> With Massive Radio Telescope, China Takes World's Lead In Search For Alien Life, here and Now, November 16, 2017 http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/11/16/china-radio-telescope <http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/11/16/china-radio-telescope> The Alien Observatory --China's Preeminent Philosopher of 'First Contact' Visits New FAST Radio Telescope: "Warns of Extinction By a Hidden Hunter" The Daily Galaxy, November 08, 2017 http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/11/the-alien-observatory-chinas-pr eeminent-philosopher-of-first-contact-visits-new-fast-radio-telsecope-warns- of-human-1.html <http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/11/the-alien-observatory-chinas-p reeminent-philosopher-of-first-contact-visits-new-fast-radio-telsecope-warns -of-human-1.html> Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral <https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral> and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com <http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com> Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list <https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list> ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral <https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral> and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com <http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com> Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list <https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list> ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
