E.T. Talk How Will We Communicate with Intelligent Life on Other Worlds? /

• Main Author: Ballesteros, Fernando J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Mathematics.; Astronautics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Theoretical Languages.; Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6089-4

Although we have done extensive studies of the Solar System and thus far found over 300 extrasolar planets  planets outside our Solar System  we have not yet found life, even primitive life, on any planet other than Earth. Might there be life on some of these newly discovered extrasolar planets? N...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• Part I: With Whom? Finding Life in the Universe
• Chapter 1: A Place for Life
• Chapter 2: The Miracle of Life
• Chapter 3: Life in the Solar System?
• Part II: With What?: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
• Chapter 4: The Search Starts
• Chapter 5: Where to Look
• Chapter 6: The Searching Strategies
• Part III: How?: The Language of Communication
• Chapter 7: Different Languages
• Chapter 8: Different World Views
• Chapter 9: How Do We Know If There's a Message?
• Chapter 10: Searching for a Common Language
• Chapter 11: Is Anybody Out There?
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• Index.