Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication
by Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher: NASA 2014
ISBN-13: 9781626830134
Number of pages: 330
Description:
Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(multiple formats)
Similar books
Man's Place in the Universeby Alfred R. Wallace - Chapman and Hall
Contents: early ideas; modern ideas; the new astronomy; the distribution of the stars; distances of stars - the sun's motion; unity and the evolution of the star-system; are the stars infinite?; our relation to the Milky Way; and more.
(6140 views)
The Beginning and the End: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspectiveby Clement Vidal - arXiv
Where does it all come from? Where are we going? Are we alone in the universe? What is good and what is evil? The scientific narrative of cosmic evolution demands that we tackle such big questions with a cosmological perspective.
(6393 views)
The Galactic Habitable Zone I. Galactic Chemical Evolutionby G. Gonzalez, D. Brownlee, P. Ward - arXiv
The GHZ is that region in the Milky Way where an Earth-like planet can retain liquid water on its surface and provide a long-term habitat for animal-like aerobic life. In this paper we examine the dependence of the GHZ on Galactic chemical evolution.
(7727 views)
Searching for Life Across Space and Time- The National Academies Press
The search for life is one of the most active fields in space science and involves a wide variety of disciplines. This book explores the possibility of habitable environments in the solar system and in exoplanets, and techniques for detecting life.
(2880 views)