Duncan H. Forgan is Associate Lecturer at the Centre for Exoplanet Science at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is a founding member of the UK Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) research network and leads UK research efforts into the search. His work includes simulations of civilisation evolution, developing observables of intelligence and policy for post-detection scenarios.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. Introducing the paradox 2. Fact A - the great silence 3. Classifying scenarios and solutions to the paradox Part II. Rare Earth Solutions: 4. Habitable worlds are rare 5. Life is rare 6. Intelligence is rare Part III. Catastrophist Solutions: 7. Doomsday arguments 8. Death by impact 9. Death by terrestrial disaster 10. Death by star 11. Death on a galactic scale? 12. Death by unsustainable growth 13. Death by self-induced environmental change 14. Self-destruction at the nanoscale 15. Artificial intelligence and the singularity 16. War 17. Societal collapse Part IV. Uncommunicative Solutions: 18. Intelligent life is new 19. Exploration is imperfect 20. Probe exploration is dangerous 21. The aliens are quiet 22. They live too far away 23. The zoo/interdict hypothesis 24. The simulation hypothesis 25. They are already here 26. They were here long ago Part V. Conclusions: 27. Solving Fermi's paradox Appendix A. A database of solutions to Fermi's paradox References Index.
Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. Introducing the paradox 2. Fact A - the great silence 3. Classifying scenarios and solutions to the paradox Part II. Rare Earth Solutions: 4. Habitable worlds are rare 5. Life is rare 6. Intelligence is rare Part III. Catastrophist Solutions: 7. Doomsday arguments 8. Death by impact 9. Death by terrestrial disaster 10. Death by star 11. Death on a galactic scale? 12. Death by unsustainable growth 13. Death by self-induced environmental change 14. Self-destruction at the nanoscale 15. Artificial intelligence and the singularity 16. War 17. Societal collapse Part IV. Uncommunicative Solutions: 18. Intelligent life is new 19. Exploration is imperfect 20. Probe exploration is dangerous 21. The aliens are quiet 22. They live too far away 23. The zoo/interdict hypothesis 24. The simulation hypothesis 25. They are already here 26. They were here long ago Part V. Conclusions: 27. Solving Fermi's paradox Appendix A. A database of solutions to Fermi's paradox References Index.
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