Is anybody out there? - Heather Couper

Does intelligent life exist beyond our planet? In the run up to the Millennium
this is the big question that everyone wants answered.
Today
life on Mars
UFOs and extraterrestrials make headline news
but scientists have been searching for alien life for the past 40 years. Signals have been beamed into deep space and messages carried on spacecraft in a bid to make contact with extraterrestrials. What is the likelihood of intelligent beings existing in other parts of the Universe
and would we be able to recognise them?
In this book
best-selling science writers
Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest
take you on a gripping journey of discovery in thier search for extraterrestrial life. Along the way they describe waht alien life formas might look like
and what could happen if we made contact. The result is an authoritative
fascninating and up-to-date survey of our attempts to discover whether we are alone in the Universe.
Is Anybody Out There? follows on from Black Holes and Big Bang to complete this stunning trilogy of mind-stretching books.