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Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch

Published
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 500 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Vakoch, Douglas A. and Astrobiology Science Conference (2010 : League City, Tex.)
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English.
Contents
pt. I. Latest advances in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Exoplanets, extremophiles, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence / Jill C. Tarter -- Current and nascent SETI instruments in the radio and optical / Andrew Siemion, Henry Chen, Jeff Cobb, et al. -- Candidate identification and interference removal in SETI@home / Eric J. Korpela, Jeff Cobb, Matt Lebofsky, et al. -- A new class of SETI beacons that contain information / Gerald R. Harp, Robert F. Ackermann, Samantha K. Blair, et al. -- Getting the world actively involved in SETI searches / Jill C. Tarter, Avinash Agrawal, Rob Ackermann, et al. -- The effects of the ionized interstellar medium on broadband signals of extraterrestrial origin / Samantha K. Blair, David G. Messerschmitt, Jill C. Tarter, et al. -- The next steps in SETI-ITALIA science and technology / Stelio Montebugnoli, Cristiano Cosmovici, Jader Monari, et al. -- Project SAZANKA: multisite and multifrequency simultaneous SETI observations in Japan / Shin-ya Narusawa, Mitsumi Fujishita, Hiroki Akisawa, et al. -- Harvard's advanced all-sky optical SETI / Curtis Mead and Paul Horowitz -- The OZ OSETI project / Ragbir Bhathal -- The new telescope/photometer optical SETI project of SETI Institute and the Lick Observatory / Frank D. Drake, Remington P.S. Stone, Dan Werthimer, et al. -- Large-scale use of solar power may be visible across interstellar distances / Louis K. Scheffer -- Interstellar radio links enabled by gravitational lenses of the sun and stars / Claudio Maccone -- Cost analysis of space exploration or an extraterrestrial civilization / Yvan Dutil and Stéphane Dumas -- Understanding the search space for SETI / William Edmondson., pt. II. Active SETI: should we transmit? Unpacking the great transmission debate / Kathryn Denning -- Integrating active and passive SETI programs: prerequisites for multigenerational research / Douglas A. Vakoch -- Building and searching for cost-optimized interstellar beacons / James Benford, Dominic Benford, Gregory Benford -- Seeking contact: the relevance of human history / Michael A.G. Michaud -- Pragmatism, cosmocentrism, and proportional consultation for communication with extraterrestrial intelligence / Mark L. Lupisella -- SETI and international radio law / Francis Lyall -- What the world needs now: identifying the relative degree of specific Maslovian needs and degree of species-level self-identification in interstellar messages submitted by a multinational sample / Timothy A. Lower, Douglas A. Vakoch, Yvonne Clearwater, et al., and pt. III. Interstellar message construction: can we make ourselves understood? Limits on interstellar messages / Seth Shostak -- Communication among interstellar intelligent species: a search for universal cognitive maps / Guillermo A. Lemarchand and Jon Lomberg -- The chemiosmosis message: a simple and information-rich communication in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence / Charles S. Cockell -- A proposal for an interstellar Rosetta stone / Stéphane Dumas -- Processes in lingua cosmica / Alexander Ollongren and Douglas A. Vakoch -- Testing SETI message designs / Michael W. Busch and Rachel M. Reddick -- The DISC quotient: a post-detention strategy / John R. Elliott and Stephen Baxter -- On the universality of human mathematics / Carl L. DeVito -- Cognitive foundations of interstellar communication / David Dunér -- Culture, meaning, and interstellar message construction / John W. Traphagan.
Summary
Annotation Highlighting recent developments in the search for extraterrestrial life, this volume covers three themes: observational initiatives; the wisdom of trasnmitting intentional signals & the content of those signals.
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9781438437934 (electronic bk.)
1438437935 (electronic bk.)
9781438437941 (electronic bk.)
1438437943 (electronic bk.)
9781441692344 (electronic bk.)
1441692347 (electronic bk.)
9781438437958
1438437951
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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