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040 _cCUS
082 0 0 _a576.839
_bSAG/C
100 1 _aSagan, Carl,
245 1 0 _aCarl Sagan's cosmic connection: an extraterrestrial perspective/
_cCarl Sagan ; produced by Jerome Agel ; new contributions by Freeman Dyson, Ann Druyan, and David Morrison.
246 3 0 _aCosmic connection
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2000.
300 _axxxi, 302 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
500 _aOriginally published: The cosmic connection. New York : Doubleday, 1973.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _aPart I. Cosmic Perspective: 1. A transitional animal 2. The Unicorn of Cetus 3. A message from earth 4. A message to earth 5. Experiments in utopias 6. Chauvinism 7. Space exploration as a human enterprise I. The scientific interest 8. Space exploration as a human enterprise II. The public interest 9. Space exploration as a human enterprise III. The historical interest Part II. The Solar System: 10. On teaching the first grade 11. 'The ancient and legendary Gods of old' 12. The Venus detective story 13. Venus is hell 14. Science and 'intelligence' 15. The moons of Barsoom 16. The mountains of Mars I. Observations from earth 17. The mountains of Mars II. Observations from space 18. The canals of Mars 19. The lost pictures of Mars 20. The Ice Age and the cauldron 21. Beginnings and ends of the Earth 22. Terraforming the plants 23. The exploration and utlization of the solar system Part III. Beyond the Solar System: 24. Some of my best friends are dolphins 25. 'Hello, central casting? Send me twenty extraterrestrials' 26. The cosmic connection 27. Extraterrestrial life: an idea whose time has come 28. Has the Earth been visited? 29. A search strategy for detecting extraterrestrial intelligence 30. If we succeed ... 31. Cables, drums, and seashells 32. The night freight to the stars 33. Astroengineering 34. Twenty questions: a classification of cosmic civilisations 35. Galactic cultural exchanges 36. A passage to elsewhere 37. Starfolk I. A Fable 38. Starfolk II. A future 39. Starfolk III. The cosmic Cheshire cats
650 0 _aLife on other planets.
650 0 _aLife
_xOrigin.
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