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{ "publisher": "Cambridge University Press", "DOI": "10.1017/CBO9781316272480.006", "ISBN": "9781107109988", "container_title": "The Impact of Discovering Life beyond Earth", "title": "A Multidimensional Impact Model for the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life", "issued": { "date-parts": [ [ 2016, 1, 1 ] ] }, "abstract": "<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> I first argue that the extraterrestrials we will find will not communicate, for the simple reason that they would likely be either immensely inferior or immensely superior to us. Then, I argue that the discovery of extraterrestrials will be slow, like other previous major scientific discoveries. I introduce a multidimensional model to assess and to prepare the impact of discovering extraterrestrial life. Twenty-six dimensions are introduced, illustrated with spider diagrams, which cover both what extraterrestrial might look like, and how humans may react.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Astrobiology, extraterrestrial life, SETI, impact of discovery, slow discovery, Rio scale, worldview, spider diagram.</p>\n\n<p> </p>", "author": [ { "family": "Vidal, Cl\u00e9ment" } ], "page": "55-75", "note": "Vidal, C. 2015. \"A Multidimensional Impact Model for the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life.\" In The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth, edited by Steven J. Dick, 55\u201375. 10.1017/CBO9781316272480.006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.", "publisher_place": "Cambridge", "type": "chapter", "id": "1286707" }
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