EAN: 9783319211145

SCIENCE AND FICTION A MAN FROM PLANET EARTH -...

Sometime in the not-too-distant future ... unbeknownst to Earth  the Galaxy is home to a number
of spacefaring societies. This confederation enforces a strict protocol forbidding any contact
with civilizations that have not yet achieved both a substantial spacefaring capability and
sufficient maturity to control the technology explosion before triggering their own extinction.
While this policy is intended to only bring in peaceful new members  matters change entirely
when the confederation is threatened by some unknown entity - is the menace real or imagined?
The confederation decides to break with the rules and sends a delegate to Earth to hire one of
the supposedly belligerent Earthlings to investigate and to revive the confederation's
long-unused starfleet. The Earthman agrees  but demands a high price: should he succeed  the
confederation will have to accept Earth as a new member. As the threat becomes ever more acute
the question soon becomes which mission will prove harder - saving the confederation or
convincing it to accept the deal! The extensive appendix  written in non-technical language 
reviews the scientific and technological topics underlying the plot - ranging from the Fermi
paradox  space travel and artificial collective intelligence to theories on possible universal
convergences in technological and biological development.

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