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Titolo: |
Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch
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Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (522 p.) |
Disciplina: | 576.8/39 |
Soggetto topico: | Interstellar communication |
Life on other planets | |
Altri autori: |
VakochDouglas A
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Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Latest Advances in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) -- Exoplanets, Extremophiles, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- Current and Nascent SETI Instruments in the Radio and Optical -- Candidate Identification and Interference Removal in SETI@home -- A New Class of SETI BeaconsThat Contain Information -- Getting the World Actively Involved in SETI Searches -- The Effects of the Ionized Interstellar Medium on Broadband Signals of Extraterrestrial Origin -- The Next Steps in SETI-ITALIA Science and Technology -- Project SAZANKA: Multisite and Multifrequency Simultaneous SETI Observations in Japan -- Harvard's Advanced All-sky Optical SETI -- The OZ OSETI Project -- The New Telescope/Photometer Optical SETI Project of SETI Institute and the Lick Observatory -- Large-Scale Use of Solar Power May Be Visible across Interstellar Distances -- Interstellar Radio Links Enabled by Gravitational Lenses of the Sun and Stars -- Cost Analysis of Space Exploration for an Extraterrestrial Civilization -- Understanding the Search Space for SETI -- Part II. Active SETI: Should We Transmit? -- Unpacking the Great Transmission Debate -- Integrating Active and Passive SETI Programs -- Building and Searching for Cost-Optimized Interstellar Beacons -- Seeking Contact -- Pragmatism, Cosmocentrism,and Proportional Consultation for Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- SETI and International Radio Law -- What the World Needs Now -- Limits on Interstellar Messages -- Communication among Interstellar Intelligent Species -- The Chemiosmosis Message -- A Proposal for an Interstellar Rosetta Stone -- Processes in Lingua Cosmica -- Testing SETI Message Designs -- The DISC Quotient. |
On the Universality of Human Mathematics -- Cognitive Foundations of Interstellar Communication -- Culture, Meaning, and Interstellar Message Construction. | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Highlights the most recent developments in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and advocates a diverse range of approaches to make SETI increasingly more powerful and effective in the years to come. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4384-3795-1 |
1-4416-9234-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910817092203321 |
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