Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SETI Past, Present, and Future
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 surviving pion...
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2011, 2011
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011 |
| Series: | The Frontiers Collection
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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