Seti 2020: A Roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966633539 ISBN 13: 9780966633535

Publisher: S E T I Press, 2010

Synopsis

If you are interested in how researchers plan to search the heavens for signs of intelligent life, you should have this book. SETI 2020 is a new, and remarkably comprehensive study of how scientists busy with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) should direct their efforts between now and the year 2020. Distilling the work of dozens of top SETI experts, astronomers, and technology mavens, this book gives an overview of the problem of finding evidence for extraterrestrial technologies, and how to best address it. New radio telescopes consisting of large arrays of relatively small antennas are proposed and detailed. So are new types of antennas that can survey the entire sky at once. Of particular interest is the extensive treatment of optical SETI -- the search for signals beamed our way using high-powered, pulsed lasers or their equivalent. A book that's interesting for both the layman and the technically sophisticated, SETI 2020 is the definitive publication in this fascinating field.

Edition details

• Publisher: S E T I Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0966633539
• ISBN 13: 9780966633535
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 549
• Editor: Ekers Ronald D., Cullers D. Kent, Billingham John