Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations Book

For forty years, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has combed the skies in search of signals from star systems within our galaxy. In Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations, author Brian McConnell examines what goes into the search for intelligent life in space--and how to communicate across the vast distances of space by encoding text and images in binary form. Beyond Contact introduces readers to: The history of SETI research The Drake Equation and the Rare Earth hypothesis How signals are sent and received over interstellar distances How to build a general-purpose symbolic language for sending signals, and even computer programs, with present-day SETI equipment Readers You'll also learn how SETI research has spawned significant technological improvements in astronomy, computers, and wireless communications.Read More