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Kuiper on colonisation
On 6 May 1977, the journal Science published a paper by Thomas B H Kuiperof the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (“JPL”) and Mark Morris of Cal Tech which concludes that “the glaxy is either essentially empty with respect to technological civilizations or extensively colonized”.

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...

 

The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

 

 

 

Book References

Complete text of article reprinted in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 170-177 (in Chapter 34) of the University Science Books hardback edition.

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion of the Kuiper and Morris paper ee the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 511-512 (in Chapter 10) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

2

1978

Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99-103 (in Chapter 8) of the NEL paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s “Extraterrestrial Encounter).

5

2001

Greenwell, J Richard in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 179 (in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 176 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

1

2001

Greenwell, J Richard in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 215-216 (in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

2

1980

Greenwell, Richard J in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 118 (forming part of an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial hypothesis”) of the NEL hardback edition.

1

2001

Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 168 (in Chapter 6) of the Routledge softcover edition.

1

1978

Ridpath, Ian in his “Messages from the Stars” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 119 (in Chapter 7) of the Fontana paperback edition.

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Other Material

Kuiper, T B H & Morris M, "Searching for Extraterrestrial Civilizations," Science, Volume 196, pages 616-621 (1977).

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