Format:
XXI, 538 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst.
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24 cm
Edition:
1. Ed.
ISBN:
9783642131950
Series Statement:
The frontiers collection
Content:
This book is a collection of essays written by those who have led, and continue to lead, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. It reviews the history of the subject, details present-day science and technology, and looks ahead to the future--
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Literaturangaben
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A half-century of SETI science / H. Paul Shuch -- Project Ozma: the birth of observational SETI / H. Paul Shuch -- Project Cyclops: the greatest radio telescope never built / Robert Dixon -- "Wow!", a tantalizing candidate / Jerry Ehman -- SETI: the NASA years / John Billingham -- From HRMS to Phoenix: Up from the ashes / Peter Backus -- SERENDIP: the Berkeley SETI program / Stuart Bowyer -- Millions and billions of channels / Darren Leigh and Paul Horowitz -- ATA: a cyclops for the 21st century / Jill Tarter -- Optical SETI: Moving toward the light / Stuart Kingsley and Monte Ross -- Distributed processing of SETI data / Eric Korpela -- Project Argus: pursuing amateur all-sky SETI / H. Paul Shuch -- Gravitational lensing extends SETI range / Richard Factor -- Detection algorithms: FFT vs. KLT / Claudio Maccone -- Implementing the KLT / Stelio Montebugnoli -- A sentry on the universe / Robert Dixon -- Pondering the Fermi paradox / Stephen Webb -- Focusing the galactic internet / Claudio Maccone -- SETI in science fiction / Stephen Baxter -- What's past is prologue: future messages of cosmic evolution / Doug Vakoch -- METI: Messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence / Alexander Zaitsev -- A contrarian perspective on altruism / David Brin -- L: how long do they last? / Seth Shostak -- What will they look like? / Jack Cohen -- Being Technological / Kathryn Denning -- After contact, then what? / Albert Harrison.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783642131967
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. Shuch, H. Paul Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 ISBN 9783642131967
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
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Biology
Keywords:
SETI
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Aufsatzsammlung
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