Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence SETI past, present, and future

✍ Scribed by Shuch, H. Paul

Publisher: Praxis Pub., Springer
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 541
Series: Frontiers collection
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication.- Foreword: Looking Back.- Preface.- Part I: The Spirit of SETI Past.- 1 A half-century of SETI science.- 2 Project Ozma: The birth of observational SETI.- 3 Project Cyclops: The greatest radio telescope never built.- 4 "Wow!", A tantalizing candidate.- 5 SETI: The NASA years.- 6 From HRMS to Phoenix: Up from the ashes.- 7 Seeking SERENDIP: The Berkeley SETI Program.- 8 Millions and billions of channels.- Part II: The Spirit of SETI Present.- 9 ATA: A cyclops for the 21st century.- 10 Optical SETI: Moving toward the light.- 11 Distributed processing of SETI data.- 12 Project Argus: Pursuing amateur all-sky SETI.- 13 Gravitational lensing extends SETI range.- 14 Detection algorithms: FFT vs. KLT.- 15 Implementing the KLT.- 16 A sentry on the Universe.- 17 Pondering the Fermi Paradox.- Part III: The Spirit of SETI Future.- 18 Focusing the Galactic internet.- 19 SETI in science fiction.- 20 What's past is prologue: Future messages of cosmic evolution.- 21 METI: Messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence.- 22 A contrarian perspective on altruism.- 23 Where the L are we?.- 24 What will they look like?.- 25 Being technological.- 26 After contact, then what? Epilogue Hungarians as Martians: The truth behind the legend.- Afterword Looking forward.- Index.

✦ Subjects

Communications interstellaires;Exobiologie;Extraterrestrial beings;Exobiology;Interstellar communication;Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Study group : U.S.);Search for extraterrestrial intelligence institute (Study group) (États-Unis)

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Searching for Extraterrestrial Intellige

📁 Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: SETI Past, Present, and Future

✍ H. Paul Shuch (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 🌐 English

<p><P>This book is a collection of essays written by the very scientists and engineers who have led, and continue to lead, the scientific quest known as SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Divided into three parts, the first section, ‘The Spirit of SETI Past’, written by the survivin

Searching for Extraterrestrial Intellige

📁 Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: SETI Past, Present, and Future

✍ H. Paul Shuch (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 🌐 English

A New Frontier : The Past, Present, and

📁 A New Frontier : The Past, Present, and Future of the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

✍ Nicki Peter Petrikowski 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Rosen Publishing Group 🌐 English

We are on the brink of a new age of exploration, and this title is sure to pique the interest of anyone interested in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Readers learn about the nascent world of planet hunting and the pursuit of life beyond Earth. They also expl

Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

📁 Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

📂 Fiction

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intellig

📁 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

✍ Scientific American Editors 📂 Library 🏛 The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc 🌐 English

<p>Many who gaze up at the stars twinkling at night wonder if there could be life somewhere out in the universe. This exciting title allows budding astronomers to explore the scientific ways this could be possible! It begins with explanatory text covering key concepts behind the formation of life on

Science, Religion, and the Search for Ex

📁 Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

✍ David Wilkinson 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

If the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe is just around the corner, what would be the consequences for religion? Would it represent another major conflict between science and religion, even leading to the death of faith? Some would suggest that the discovery of any suggestion of extraterre