Distant Wanderers

While profound certainly, the detection of an alien intelligence, even within 100 parsecs from Earth, would not be something that most people would think about on a day-to-day basis. Life would simply go on.

An Abridged extract from 'Distant Wanderers' by Bruce Dorminey (C) By permission of (Copernicus Books,$29.95/£22) An imprint of Springer-Verlag New York, Inc Available to buy from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com. Bruce Dorminey was a winner in the Royal Aeronautical Society's Aerospace 1998 Journalist of the Year Awards. He writes about astronomy and astrophysics for numerous publications. This is his first book.

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