Beyond Contact (Hard Cover) A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations

By Brian McConnell
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Table of Contents

Part I: Are We Alone?

1 SETI for Everyone
2 Listening to the Stars
3 The Drake Equation
4 Evolution
5 Communicative Civilizations

Part II: Getting a Dial Tone

6 Radio Communication
7 Lightwave (Laser) Communication
8 Signal Processing and Confirmation
9 Bringing SETI Home
10 Teleporting Bits

Part 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
22 Epilogue

Part IV: Appendix

A Message Replication
B SETI Resources on the Internet
C SETI Program Timeline

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

How to Contact Us

Index

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