Are human beings uniquely endowed with a mind that strives to understand, interpret, and communicate, and the only ones to have invented instruments that peer into the depths of galaxies? Certainly not. We don't yet know where they are, how they live, or what they look like. But we can be sure that life exists elsewhere, somewhere among the hundreds of billions of stars and planets in the known universe.
Are human beings uniquely endowed with a mind that strives to understand, interpret, and communicate, and the only ones to have invented instruments that peer into the depths of galaxies? Certainly not. We don't yet know where they are, how they live, or what they look like. But we can be sure that life exists elsewhere, somewhere among the hundreds of billions of stars and planets in the known universe. In this popular science book, Isaac Asimov demonstrates the unwavering logic that leads him to conclude that intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations exist. Can we find them? Should we look for them? Is it safe for our survival? Will they eventually find us? Or, as some (but not Asimov) believe, have they already found us? In this fascinating book, the reader is led to confront a series of compelling questions that lead to the development of a new consciousness: that of humankind on the threshold of the intergalactic age.
