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1. SETI Scientist (Weird Careers in Science) by Mary Firestone | |
Library Binding: 81
Pages
(2005-11-30)
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2. Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations by Brian S. McConnell | |
Hardcover: 350
Pages
(2001-03-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description This last problem, which occupies the final half of the book, proves to bethe most thought-provoking, and McConnell has put together a methodical,nuts-and-bolts walkthrough of both the challenges involved and how binarycode might be enlisted to solve them. If you've taken even a singlecomputer-science class in your life, you'll probably skip ahead throughexplanations of data structures and Boolean arithmetic, but McConnelldoesn't want to leave anyone behind in fleshing out his alien-friendly lingua numerica. The book's first half surveys various SETI projects, past and present, and includes generous sections on signal processing, what sort of radio and laser hardware has been mobilized for the search, and how exactly SETI@home works. (So, if nothing else, now you can know how your computer decides if it's talking to aliens while you're off having lunch.) --Paul Hughes Customer Reviews (11)
too boring and technical.
Interesting Premise and Valid Questions
Awesome!
Get's down to the skinny when it comes to communicating with aliens
can't take it seriously For example: On page 116, one of the factors mentioned as a limit to OSETI (finding laser beacons and such) is extinction--the attenuation of light due to dust in the intersteller medium. This, it is said, limits our ability to see laser beacons to "a few dozens light years" for visible wavelengths. Really?? Then how come you can go and see stars farther away than that with your naked eye? Oh, because they're brighter! Well, how bright does a laser beacon need to be? How much attentuation is there, in per cent, dB or whatever, at, say, 100 light years? How much does a beam spread out over, say, 100 light years? How much variation in the signal is there over time as a result of dust? Not a BIT of quantitative data on this stuff! Like all other SETI enthusiasts I've seen, they also ignore another issue: As communication techniques get more advanced, they look more and more like random noise. Our millions of chattering cell phones and internet hosts will almost certainly be undetectable to anyone outside the earth environment, let alone the solar system: Those transmissions have no directionality, they are low power precisely because they are efficient and advanced, and their advanced modulation causes them to look like white noise. Consider a 300 bps modem, with its old-fashioned tone signaling; then listen to a 56k modem, which, except when it's hooking up, sounds almost like rushing steam. It's hard to escape the idea that we will only pick up radio from ET if he intentionally beams it at us, a doubtful proposition unless he's within 60 light years, as he has no way to know of OUR radio transmissions. A final word about copy editing: I've yet to read a book with absolutely no errors, but at least they could get three-letter words like "its" right. There are other serious errors, such as missing words, the ubiquitous "different than," and other less glaring mistakes. If they can't do better than that, perhaps they should just record audio tapes. All in all, about a third of the way through, I decided that other books must surely be able to better satisfy my curiosity on this subject. ... Read more |
3. Tomb of Pharoah Seti I by Eric Hornung | |
Hardcover: 263
Pages
(1997-06-01)
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4. The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis (Probleme Der Agyptologie, 16. Bd) by Peter James Brand | |
Hardcover: 446
Pages
(2000-09-01)
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5. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) in the Optical Spectrum III (Proceedings of Spie) | |
Paperback: 284
Pages
(2001-08-03)
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6. Reencarnacion de Omm Seti (Spanish Edition) by Jonathan Cott | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1992-07)
list price: US$9.10 Isbn: 9501511995 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
7. Seti by Fred Fichman | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(1990-11-06)
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8. Seti: Webster's Timeline History, 1769 - 2007 by Icon Group International | |
Paperback: 38
Pages
(2010-03-24)
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9. Black Futurists in the Information Age: Vision of a 21st Century Technological Renaissance by Timothy L. Jenkins, Khafra K Om-Ra-Seti | |
Paperback: 284
Pages
(1997-07-09)
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Important Work
A heavy read For the technologically uninvolved it is a tough book but one that helps explain the new world in a reasonable, understandable format. Reviewed by alice Holman
Blueprint for a futuristic beginning: KyberGenesis
A wake-up call to Black people
Good book for understanding technology and the future |
10. 1190s Bc Deaths: 1190 Bc Deaths, 1191 Bc Deaths, 1192 Bc Deaths, 1197 Bc Deaths, 1199 Bc Deaths, Amenmesse, Seti Ii, Chancellor Bay, Siptah | |
Paperback: 32
Pages
(2010-09-15)
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11. Tolkovyi anglo-russkii slovar sokrashchenii po informatike i programmirovaniiu: Programmnye produkty, telekommunikatsii, kompiutery, seti : 1750 sokrashchenii by S. S Dobrinov | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(1994)
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12. Razvitie transportno-dorozhnoi seti SSSR v 1941-1945 gg (Russian Edition) by IU. L Diakov | |
Paperback: 416
Pages
(1997)
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13. Seti Pioneers: Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by David W. Swift | |
Hardcover: 434
Pages
(1990-04)
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Unedited interviews of varying interest |
14. The Seti Factor: How the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Is Changing Our View of the Universe and Ourselves by Frank White | |
Hardcover: 250
Pages
(1990-07)
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15. Seti Dlia Proteia: Problemy Interpretatsii Formy V Izobrazitel'nom Iskusstve by S. M. Daniel' | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(2002-01)
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16. Anglo-russkii tolkovyi slovar: Multimedia-sistemy, telekommunikatsionnye kompiuternye seti, bezopasnost kompiuternykh sistem i setei (Russian Edition) | |
Unknown Binding: 191
Pages
(1995)
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17. The Human Quantum Leap: Confessions Of A Former Intelligence Operative by A. J. Ensor | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2008-09-14)
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A Plain and Simple Review |
18. An account of the sarcophagus of Seti I, king of Egypt, B.C. 1370 by E A. Wallis Budge | |
Paperback: 146
Pages
(2010-09-08)
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19. Territorialnye arealy i seti: Ocherki teoreticheskoi geografii (Russian Edition) by B. B Rodoman | |
Unknown Binding: 255
Pages
(1999)
Isbn: 5935200015 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
20. Seti: The Search for Alien Intelligence (Hot Science) by Peter Jedicke | |
Library Binding: 48
Pages
(2003-08)
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