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Everyone is curious about life in the Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career as an astrophysicist, Adam Frank has consistently been asked about the possibility of intelligent life in the universe.

We\\u2019ve long been led to believe that astronomers spend every night searching the sky for extraterrestrials, but the truth is we have barely started looking. Not until now have we even known where to look or how. In The Little Book of Aliens, Frank, a leading researcher in the field, takes us on a journey to all that we know about the possibility of life outside planet Earth and shows us the cutting-edge science that has brought us to this unique moment in human history: the one where we go find out for ourselves.

Shermer and Frank discuss: origin of Life \\u2022 Drake Equation \\u2022 Fermi\\u2019s Paradox \\u2022 UFOs and UAPs \\u2022 Projects Sign, Blue Book, Cyclops, Grudge \\u2022 AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program) \\u2022 Alien Autopsy film \\u2022 SETI & METI \\u2022 technosignatures & biosignatures \\u2022 aliens: biological or AI? \\u2022 convergent vs. contingent evolution \\u2022 interstellar travel \\u2022 Dyson spheres, rings, and swarms \\u2022 Kardashev scale of civilizations \\u2022 aliens as gods and the search as religion \\u2022 why aliens matter.

Adam Frank is the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester. A Carl Sagan Medal winner from the American Astronomical Society, he is also the author of Light of the Stars and was the science advisor for Marvel\\u2019s Doctor Strange. Frank is the principal investigator on NASA\\u2019s first grant to study technosignatures \\u2014 signs of advanced civilizations on other worlds \\u2014 and his current work focuses on the evolution of life and planets, the \\u201cAstrobiology of the Anthropocene,\\u201d and the long-term trajectory of civilizations.