Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective

Carl Sagan0385004575, 9780385004572

A classic book by the world’s most famous scientist and science visionary, back in print with a new 2000 perspective.

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Table of contents :
An Extraterrestrial Perspective……Page 1
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Contents……Page 4
Preface……Page 6
Part One:COSMIC PERSPECTIVES……Page 9
1. A Transitional Animal……Page 11
2. The Unicorn of Cetus……Page 15
3. A Message from Earth……Page 21
4. A Message to Earth……Page 24
5. Experiments in Utopias……Page 34
6. Chauvinism……Page 39
I. The Scientific Interest……Page 46
II. The Public Interest……Page 52
III. The Historical Interest……Page 58
Part Two:THE SOLAR SYSTEM……Page 61
10. On Teaching the First Grade……Page 64
11. “The Ancient and Legendary Gods of Old”……Page 67
12. The Venus Detective Story……Page 70
13. Venus Is Hell……Page 75
14. Science and “Intelligence”……Page 80
15. The Moons of Barsoom……Page 84
I. Observations From Earth……Page 96
II. Observations From Space……Page 101
18. The Canals of Mars……Page 106
19. The Lost Pictures of Mars……Page 110
20. The Ice Age and the Cauldron……Page 115
21. Beginnings and Ends of the Earth……Page 118
22. Terraforming the Planets……Page 121
23. The Exploration and Utilization of the Solar System……Page 126
Part Three:BEYOND THE SOLAR SYSTEM……Page 132
24. Some of My Best Friends Are Dolphins……Page 134
25. “Hello, Central Casting? Send Me Twenty Extraterrestrial……Page 144
26. The Cosmic Connection……Page 147
27. Extraterrestrial Life: An Idea Whose Time Has Come……Page 150
28. Has the Earth Been Visited?……Page 156
29. A Search Strategy for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelli……Page 163
30. If We Succeed……Page 168
31. Cables, Drums, and Seashells……Page 173
32. The Night Freight to the Stars……Page 176
33. Astroengineering……Page 178
34. Twenty Questions: A Classification of Cosmic Civilizatio……Page 181
35. Galactic Cultural Exchanges……Page 186
36. A Passage to Elsewhen……Page 189
I. A Fable……Page 193
II. A Future……Page 198
III. The Cosmic Cheshire Cats……Page 203