During 1973, the “Zoo hypothesis” was advanced by Professor John Ball.
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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 241-242 (in Chapter 45) of the University Science Books hardback edition.
For discussion of the Zoo Hypothesis see the following:
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Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 245-246 (in Chapter 24) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition. |
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Angelo, Joseph A in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: Man’s Search for Life in Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 77-78 (in the entry entitled “Laboratory hypothesis”), 224 (in the entry entitled “Zoo hypothesis”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition. |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “The UFO Phenomena” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49-50 (in Chapter 4) of the Headline hardback edition. |
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Baird, John C in his “The Inner Limits of Outer Space” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 100 (in Chapter 6), 204 (in Chapter 12) of the Dartmouth hardback edition. |
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Baxter, Stephen in his “Deep Future” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 182 (in Chapter 22) of the Gollancz paperback edition. |
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Binder, Otto in his “What we really know about Flying Saucers” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 172-173 (in Chapter 15) of the Fawcett paperback edition. |
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Brin, David in “Are We Alone in the Cosmos” (1999) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 143 (in Chapter 3, essay entitled “Mystery of the Great Silence”) of the ibooks softcover edition. |
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Brin, David in “First Contact” (1990) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 124 (in Chapter 3, essay entitled “Mystery of the Great Silence”) of the NAL Books hardback edition, at page 162 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Brin, David in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 232 (in Section 3) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 471 (in the entry entitled “zoo hypothesis”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Zoo Hypothesis”. The relevant entry is available online at: |
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Deardorff, Jim in “Alien Update” (1993) (edited by Timothy Good) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-163 (in Chapter 10) of the Arrow paperback edition. (The relevant chapter is a reprint of the following article: J. W. Deardorff “Possible extraterrestrial strategy for Earth”, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society , Volume 27 (1986), pages 94-101.) |
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Goodwin, Simon with John Gribbin in their “XTL” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 146 (in Chapter 4.1) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson softcover edition. |
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Gott, J Richard in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 181 (in Chapter 19) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. |
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Hart, Michael in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4, 5 (in Chapter 1) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. (The relevant chapter is a reprint of Hart, Michael “An Explanation for the Absence of Extraterrestrials on Earth”, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 16 (1975), pages 128-135). |
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Hart, Michael in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 230 (in Chapter 42) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “An Explanation for the Absence of Extraterrestrials on Earth”, in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 16, pages 128-135 (1975). |
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Kuiper, Thomas B H and Morris, Mark in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 175 (in Chapter 34) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “Searching for Extraterrestrial Civilizations” Science, Volume 196, pages 616-621 (1977). |
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Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 171-174, 177 (in Chapter 6), 196 (in Chapter 8) of the Routledge softcover edition. |
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Lemonick, Michael in his “Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 243-244 (in Chapter 13) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Simon & Schuster softcover edition). |
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McConnell, Brian in his “Beyond Contact : A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 64, 65 (in Chapter 5) of the O’Reilly hardback edition. |
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McDonough, Thomas R in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Listening for Life in the Cosmos” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 193, 202-203 (in Chapter 15) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Nicolson, Iain in his “The Road to the Stars” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 208-209 (in Chapter 11) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Pickover, Clifford in his “The Science of Aliens” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 174 (in Chapter 8) of the Basic Books hardback edition. |
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Poundstone, William in his “Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 274 (in the chapter entitled “Los Angeles 1978- |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 126-127 (in Chapter 7) of the Wildwood House softcover edition. |
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Rood, Robert and Trefil, James in their “Are We Alone?“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 248-249 (in Chapter 17) of the Scribners hardback edition. |
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Sagan, Carl in his “Contact” (1985) at pages 57-58 (in Chapter 3) of the Legend paperback edition. |
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Schwartzman, David W in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 264 (in Chapter 51) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “The Absence of Extraterrestrials on Earth and the Prospects for CETI” in Icarus, Volume 23 (1977), pages 473ff. |
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Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 128-129 (in Chapter 6) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition. |
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Stoneley, Jack and Lawton, A T in their “Is Anyone Out There?” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 (in Chapter 4) of the Star Books paperback edition. |
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Tipler, Frank in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 146 (in Part 4) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of Frank Tipler’s article “Extraterrestrial Intelligent Beings do not Exist” (1980), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 21, pages 267-281. |
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Webb, Stephen in his “Where is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 46-55 (in Chapter 3) of the Copernicus hardback edition. |
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White, Frank in his “The SETI Factor” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99-100 (in Chapter 7) of the Walker hardback edition. |
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Wilkinson, David in his “Alone in the Universe?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 79-80 (in Chapter 5) of the Monarch softcover edition. |
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Zuckerman, Ben in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 44 (in Chapter 6) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. (Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 26 (1985), pages 56-59). |
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Other Material
Ball, John A., “The Zoo Hypothesis”, Icarus, volume 19 (1973), pages 347-349.