The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Recent Developments

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Introduction
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   Chapter 2 A Historical Introduction to the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
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   Chapter 3 Twenty-Five Years of the Search for Extraterrestrial Communications
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   Chapter 4 Seti is Coming of Age
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   Chapter 5 Welcoming Address
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   Chapter 6 Invocation
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   Chapter 7 Introduction
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   Chapter 8 A Review of the Scientific Rationale and Methods Used in the Search for Other Planetary Systems
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    Chapter 9 Protoplanetary Material Around Nearby Stars
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    Chapter 10 On the Number of Galactic Planetary Systems
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    Chapter 11 Planetary Searches Using Optical Astrometric Interferometers
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    Chapter 12 A New Objective for the Allegheny Observatory 30-Inch Refractor
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    Chapter 13 Prospects for Space Telescope in the Search for Other Planetary Systems
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    Chapter 14 Detecting Distant Planets with Space Telescope
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    Chapter 15 Absolute Astronomical Accelerometry : A New Tool for Planetary Searching
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    Chapter 16 Assisting Extrasolar Planetary Detection through the Determination of Stellar Space Orientations
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    Chapter 17 Introduction
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    Chapter 18 Titan’s Organic Chemistry
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    Chapter 19 Prebiotic Matter in Interstellar Molecules
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    Chapter 20 Recent Observations of Organic Molecules in Nearby Cold, Dark Interstellar Clouds
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    Chapter 21 Infrared Spectral Identification of Complex Organic Molecules in Interstellar Grains
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    Chapter 22 Universal Protein Ancestors from Hydrogen Cyanide and Water
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    Chapter 23 Panspermia — a Modern Astrophysical and Biological Approach
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    Chapter 24 No Valid Evidence Exists for Interstellar Proteins, Bacteria, etc.
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    Chapter 25 Astronomical Sources of Circularly Polarized Light and their Role in Determining Molecular Chirality on Earth
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    Chapter 26 Introduction
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    Chapter 27 Synthesis and Analysis in Chemical Evolution
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    Chapter 28 Molecular Replication
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    Chapter 29 The Precambrian Evolution of Terrestrial Life
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    Chapter 30 Human Evolution: The View From Saturn
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    Chapter 31 Some Implications of Mass Extinction for the Evolution of Complex Life
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    Chapter 32 Evidence for a Solar Companion Star
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    Chapter 33 The Universal Diagrams and Life in the Universe
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    Chapter 34 Universal Aspects of Biological Evolution
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    Chapter 35 On the Occurrence and Appearance of Galactic Life Forms: A Thermodynamic Approach
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    Chapter 36 Introduction
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    Chapter 37 Seti Observations Worldwide
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    Chapter 38 Project Sentinel: Ultra-Narrowband SETI at Harvard/Smithsonian
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    Chapter 39 The Ohio SETI Program — The First Decade
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    Chapter 40 A Search in the Infrared to Microwave for Astroengineering Activity
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    Chapter 41 Search for Strongly Polarized Radio Emission from E.T.I., and an Optimist Approach to the Great Silence (Fermi’s Paradox)
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    Chapter 42 Lunar Reflections of Terrestrial Radio Leakage
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    Chapter 43 Eavesdropping Detection of Radio Signals from Other Planets, with One Bit-Implementation Techniques Using Existing Computers
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    Chapter 44 Introduction
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    Chapter 45 Seti: A More Eclectic Approach
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    Chapter 46 The 8-Million Channel Narrowband Analyzer
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    Chapter 47 The Multichannel Spectrum Analyzer
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    Chapter 48 Software Implementation of Detection Algorithms for the MCSA
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    Chapter 49 Seti: The Microwave Search Problem and the Targeted Search Approach
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    Chapter 50 Seti: The Microwave Search Problem and the NASA Sky Survey Approach
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    Chapter 51 An Analysis of the Elements of an All Sky Survey
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    Chapter 52 Optimum Search Strategy for Randomly Distributed CW Transmitters
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    Chapter 53 A Milky Way Search Strategy for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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    Chapter 54 The Serendip II Design
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    Chapter 55 New 45m Radio Telescope and Fourier-Transform Type Spectrometer at Nobeyama Radio Observatory
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    Chapter 56 Introduction
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    Chapter 57 A Comparative Analysis of Space Colonization Enterprises
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    Chapter 58 On the Question of Interstellar Travel
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    Chapter 59 Exponential Expansion: Galactic Destiny or Technological Hubris?
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    Chapter 60 Where are They? Implications of Ancient and Future Migrations
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    Chapter 61 Galactic Colonization and Competition in a Young Galactic Disk
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    Chapter 62 Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Where is Everybody?
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    Chapter 63 Fermi Question, Fermi Paradox: One Hit, One Out
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    Chapter 64 On a Cosmic Alphabet
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    Chapter 65 On the Inevitability and the Possible Structures of Supercivilizations
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    Chapter 66 An Infrared Search in our Solar System as Part of a More Flexible Search Strategy
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    Chapter 67 Introduction
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    Chapter 68 Summary of First Session
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    Chapter 69 Summary of Session II Planetary, Interplanetary and Interstellar Organic Matter
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    Chapter 70 Summary of Session III Universal Aspects of Biological Evolution
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    Chapter 71 Questionmarks Remaining
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    Chapter 72 Two Additional Comments
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    Chapter 73 A Look into the Future
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    Chapter 74 Concluding Remarks
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    Chapter 75 Activities and Resolutions of IAU Commission 51
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    Chapter 76 Epilogue