Communication With Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Ceti)

by Vakoch, Douglas A.

• ISBN13: 9781438437934
• ISBN10: 1438437935
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Highlights the most recent developments in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and advocates a diverse range of approaches to make SETI increasingly more powerful and effective in the years to come.

Author Biography

Douglas A. Vakoch is Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Latest Advances in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Exoplanets, Extremophiles, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence	p. 3
Current and Nascent SETI Instruments in the Radio and Optical	p. 19
Candidate Identification and Interference Removal in SETI@home	p. 37
A New Class of SETI Beacons That Contain Information	p. 45
Getting the World Actively Involved in SETI Searches	p. 71
The Effects of the Ionized Interstellar Medium on Broadband Signals of Extraterrestrial Origin	p. 81
The Next Steps in SETI-ITALIA Science and Technology	p. 95
Project SAZANKA: Multisite and Multifrequency Simultaneous SETI Observations in Japan	p. 109
Harvard's Advanced All-sky Optical SETI	p. 125
The OZ OSETI Project	p. 137
The New Telescope/Photometer Optical SETI Project of SETI Institute and the Lick Observatory	p. 145
Large-Scale Use of Solar Power May Be Visible across Interstellar Distances	p. 161
Interstellar Radio Links Enabled by Gravitational Lenses of the Sun and Stars	p. 177
Cost Analysis of Space Exploration for an Extraterrestrial Civilization	p. 215
Understanding the Search Space for SETI	p. 223
Active SETI: Should We Transmit?
Unpacking the Great Transmission Debate	p. 237
Integrating Active and Passive SETI Programs: Prerequisites for Multigenerational Research	p. 253
Building and Searching for Cost-Optimized Interstellar Beacons	p. 279
Seeking Contact: The Relevance of Human History	p. 307
Pragmatism, Cosmocentrism, and Proportional Consultation for Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence	p. 319
SETI and International Radio Law	p. 333
What the World Needs Now: Identifying the Relative Degree of Specific Maslovian Needs and Degree of Species-Level Self-Identification in Interstellar Messages Submitted by a Multinational Sample	p. 341
Interstellar Message Construction: Can We Make Ourselves Understood?
Limits on Interstellar Messages	p. 357
Communication among Interstellar Intelligent Species: A Search for Universal Cognitive Maps	p. 371
The Chemiosmosis Message-A Simple and Information-Rich Communication in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence	p. 397
A Proposal for an Interstellar Rosetta Stone	p. 403
Processes in Lingua Cosmica	p. 413
Testing SETI Message Designs	p. 419
The DISC Quotient: A Post-Detection Strategy	p. 425
On the Universality of Human Mathematics	p. 439
Cognitive Foundations of Interstellar Communication	p. 449
Culture, Meaning, and Interstellar Message Construction	p. 469
Index	p. 487
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