Title Beyond contact : a guide to SETI and communicating with alien civilizations / Brian McConnell

Edition First edition Published Beijing ; Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, [2001] ©2001

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Description vi, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Pt. I. Are We Alone? -- 1. SETI for Everyone -- 2. Listening to the Stars -- 3. The Drake Equation -- 4. Evolution -- 5. Communicative Civilizations -- Pt. II. Getting a Dial Tone -- 6. Radio Communication -- 7. Lightwave (Laser) Communication -- 8. Signal Processing and Confirmation -- 9. Bringing SETI Home -- 10. Teleporting Bits -- Pt. III. Communicating with Other Worlds -- 11. CETI - Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- 12. Binary DNA -- 13. Symbols -- 14. Memory and Programming -- 15. Concepts and igenes -- 16. Sequencing the Binary Genome -- 17. Pictures -- 18. Simulations -- 19. Abstract Symbols and Language -- 20. Semantic Networks -- 21. Content -- App. A. Message Replication -- App. B. SETI Resources on the Internet -- App. C. SETI Program Timeline Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-402) and index Subject Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Study group : U.S.) Life on other planets. Extraterrestrial beings. Interstellar communication. LC no. 2001273629 ISBN 0596000375

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