Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Foreword xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Latest Advances in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
7. Exoplanets, Extremophiles, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 3
8. Current and Nascent SETI Instruments in the Radio and Optical 19
9. Candidate Identification and Interference Removal in SETI@home 37
10. A New Class of SETI Beacons That Contain Information 45
11. Getting the World Actively Involved in SETI Searches 71
12. The Effects of the Ionized Interstellar Medium on Broadband Signals of Extraterrestrial Origin 81
13. The Next Steps in SETI-ITALIA Science and Technology 95
14. Project SAZANKA: Multisite and Multifrequency Simultaneous SETI Observations in Japan 109
15. Harvard’s Advanced All-sky Optical SETI 125
16. The Oz Oseti Project 137
17. The New Telescope/Photometer Optical SETI Project of SETI Institute and the Lick Observatory 145
18. Large-Scale Use of Solar Power May Be Visible across Interstellar Distances 161
19. Interstellar Radio Links Enabled by Gravitational Lenses of the Sun and Stars 177
20. Cost Analysis of Space Exploration for an Extraterrestrial Civilization 215
21. Understanding the Search Space for SETI 223
22. Active SETI: Should We Transmit?
23. Unpacking the Great Transmission Debate 237
24. Integrating Active and Passive SETI Programs 253
25. Building and Searching for Cost-Optimized Interstellar Beacons 279
26. Seeking Contact 307
27. Pragmatism, Cosmocentrism, and Proportional Consultation for Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence 319
28. SETI and International Radio Law 333
29. What the World Needs Now 341
30. Interstellar Message Construction: Can We Make Ourselves Understood?
31. Limits on Interstellar Messages 357
32. Communication among Interstellar Intelligent Species 371
33. The Chemiosmosis Message 397
34. A Proposal for an Interstellar Rosetta Stone 403
35. Processes in Lingua Cosmica 413
36. Testing SETI Message Designs 419
37. The DISC Quotient 425
38. On the Universality of Human Mathematics 439
39. Cognitive Foundations of Interstellar Communication 449
40. Culture, Meaning, and Interstellar Message Construction 469
41. Index 487