Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
by Michael Benson · 2 Apr 2018 · 614pp · 174,633 words
been worked out before, of course, most famously by astronomer Frank Drake as an analytical tool for the first meeting in 1961 of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence—a meeting that Sagan had attended. After a lot of debate, the SETI group had produced a figure of between a thousand and a hundred
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Sellers, Peter, 41, 43, 262, 315, 433 “Sentinel, The” (Clarke), 20–21, 22, 30, 31, 44, 48, 53, 54, 88, 89, 102 Serendib, 26 SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), 19 Seventh Seal, The, 200 Shadow on the Sun, 37, 38, 44, 45, 48, 139 Shapiro, Michael, 422 Shapley, Harlow, 69 Shaw, Artie, 35, 38
The Second Intelligent Species: How Humans Will Become as Irrelevant as Cockroaches
by Marshall Brain · 6 Apr 2015 · 215pp · 56,215 words
. Every day there is a new report of a UFO somewhere in the world. And there is a very well known effort called SETI - the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - that hopes to intercept radio signals from intelligent life on other planets. Just think of all of the popular movies that have explored the possibility
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past)
by Cixin Liu · 11 Nov 2014 · 420pp · 119,928 words
so that we can respond appropriately when technological leaps occur. Fields where technological leaps are most likely: Physics: [omitted] Biology: [omitted] Computer Science: [omitted] The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI): Of all fields, this is the one in which the possibility for a technology leap is greatest. If a leap occurs in this field
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should systematically analyze the matter in depth. Signed: XXX Date: XX/XX/196X II. Research Report on the Possibility of Technology Leap Due to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 1. Current International Research Trends [Summary] (1) The United States and other NATO states: The scientific case and the necessity for SETI are generally accepted
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, and strong academic support exists. Project Ozma: In 1960, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia, searched for extraterrestrial intelligence with a radio telescope 26 meters in diameter. The project examined the stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani for 200 hours using ranges near the
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it was able to simultaneously monitor forty thousand channels. “But later, as people gained perspective, they had a better appreciation of the difficulty of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the leadership lost interest in Red Coast. The first change was reducing the base’s security rating. The consensus was that the extreme secrecy
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was turned over to the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Astronomy Institute, and it took on some research projects that had nothing to do with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence or the military.” “I believe you achieved most of your scientific accomplishments during that time.” “Initially, Red Coast also took on some radio astronomy projects
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, he had studied astrophysics as well, so he wanted to return to doing science. The research projects that Red Coast took on outside of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence were all due to his efforts.” “I doubt that he could have returned to technical work so easily after spending so much time as a
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to Tsinghua, her alma mater, to teach astrophysics until retirement. All this Wang had heard from Sha Ruishan at the Miyun Radio Astronomy Observatory. “The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a unique discipline. It has a profound influence on the researcher’s perspective on life.” Ye spoke in a drawn-out voice, as though
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
by David Deutsch · 30 Jun 2011 · 551pp · 174,280 words
creation of knowledge exhibits that underlying unity. In Arecibo, Puerto Rico, there is a giant radio telescope, one of whose many uses is in the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). In an office in a building near the telescope there is a small domestic refrigerator. Inside that refrigerator is a bottle of champagne, sealed
The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
by William Poundstone · 3 Jun 2019 · 283pp · 81,376 words
to 100 million years. Could we detect regular broadcast signals from distant stars? It’s not likely, given the technology at our end. Our SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) efforts bank more on the hopeful prospect that advanced ETs will want to communicate with us and are able to build superpowerful beacons to do
Cosmos
by Carl Sagan · 1 Jan 1980 · 404pp · 131,034 words
global interest exists in the exploration of the planets and in many kindred scientific topics—the origin of life, the Earth, and the Cosmos, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, our connection with the universe. And I was certain that this interest could be excited through that most powerful communications medium, television. My feelings were
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comparatively inexpensive: the cost of a single naval vessel of intermediate size—a modern destroyer, say—would pay for a decade-long program in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Benevolent encounters have not been the rule in human history, where transcultural contacts have been direct and physical, quite different from the receipt of a
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the easiest part of the problem. Convincing the U.S. Congress and the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. to fund a search for extraterrestrial intelligence is the hard part.* In fact, it may be that civilizations can be divided into two great categories: one in which the scientists are unable
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Travel and Communication: A Bibliography.” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 33, No. 6, 1980. *Morrison, P., Billingham, J. and Wolfe, J. (eds.). The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. New York: Dover, 1979. *Sagan, Carl (ed.). Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI). Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1973. Sagan, Carl and Page, Thornton (eds.). UFO
Extraterrestrial Civilizations
by Isaac Asimov · 2 Jan 1979 · 330pp · 99,226 words
are the questions that must be asked once we agree that we are not alone, and astronomers are asking them. The whole matter of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has now become so common, in fact, that it has been abbreviated to save trouble in referring to it. Astronomers now refer to it as
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SETI, from the initials of the phrase “the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.” The first scientific discussion of SETI that offered a hope of carrying through the search successfully came only in 1959. It is natural to suppose
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some abstract scale, it will prove useful and reasonable for the purposes of this book. Fire sets us on a road that ends with a search for extraterrestrial intelligence; without fire we would never have made it. The extraterrestrial intelligences we are looking for, then, must have developed the use of fire (or, to
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on the level of bacterial life on Earth. Such simple life would be quite sufficient to excite biologists and astronomers, but as far as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is concerned, we are left with what is overwhelmingly likely to be zero. We must look elsewhere. *There may be small amounts of water in
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stimulates hatred and fear and increases steadily the chance that the nations of the Earth will wipe out each other and, perhaps, all humanity, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is something that would surely have a uniting effect on us all. The mere thought of other civilizations advanced beyond our own, of a Galaxy
Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind
by Susan Schneider · 1 Oct 2019 · 331pp · 47,993 words
that alien intelligence is also likely to be superintelligent. 2. Alien civilizations may have already been around for billions of years. Proponents of SETI (“the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence”) have often concluded that alien civilizations would be much older than our own, if they exist. As the former NASA chief historian, Steven Dick, observes
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AI, 5, 98–119 BISAs (biologically inspired superintelligent aliens), 113–19 consciousness, 110–11 control problem and, 104–5 postbiological cosmos approach, 99–104 SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), 101, 105–9, 106 software theory, 119 superintelligent AI minds, encountering, 109–19 Alzheimer’s disease, 44, 58 Amazon, 131 Arrival (film), 107 artificial general
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, 95 Scharf, Caleb, 41–42 Schisler, Josh, 120–21, 145 Schneider, Susan The Language of Thought, 126 at Starshot Initiative, 41–43 Schwitzgebel, Eric, 68 Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), 101, 105–9, 106 Searle, John, 19–22, 20, 158n4 self viewed as illusion, 76, 77, 137, 161n10 sensory processing “hot zone,” 38 separation
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of mind from body, ability to imagine, 51, 55, 57 SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), 101, 105–9, 106 SIM and SIM* (software instantiation view of/approach to the mind), 134–42. See also software, mind viewed as singularity, approach
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011
are part of it. Wireless Internet nodes in cafes, hotels, and neighborhoods are part of it. Millions of people who lend their computers to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence are part of it. The way buyers and sellers rate each other on the Internet auction site eBay is part of it. At least one
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appropriate pattern of attributes. Location-based matchmaking is now available on some mobile phone services.7 When I’m not using my computer, its processor searches for extraterrestrial intelligence. I’m one of millions of people around the world who lend their computers to a cooperative effort—distributing parts of problems through the Internet
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light change can become a temporary cloud of distributed computing power. In the summer of 2000, I visited David P. Anderson, technical instigator of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project. I knew I had arrived at the right place when I spotted the WELCOME ALL SPECIES doormat. The University of California Space Sciences
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Laboratory in the Berkeley Hills is still the mother ship of community computation, nerve center of the largest cooperative computing effort in the world. Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is a privately funded scientific examination of extraterrestrial radio signals in search of messages from alien civilizations. More than 2 million people worldwide donate
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-sum games and reputation systems Evolution@home Evolution of Cooperation, The (Axelrod) ExpertCentral Web site Experts-Exchange Extinction, of species Extraterrestrial intelligence See also SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project Exxon Eye contact, human discourse without EyeTaps Facial recognition systems Fanning, Shawn FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) FARC guerrillas Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and interference
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and wireless networks Metricom Mexico Microprocessors,i and ad-hocracies clustering cycles and grid computing Intel, advent of and Moore's Law, xv and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence Microsoft and Bluetooth developer conferences and Linux museum .NET initiative and reputation systems Research and wireless networks Middle Ages Middleware Milinski, Manfred Military research: and
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Private Eye eyeglasses Prix Ars Electronica Processors,i and ad-hocracies clustering cycles and grid computing Intel, advent of and Moore's Law and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence Microsoft and Bluetooth developer conferences and Linux museum .NET initiative and reputation systems Research and wireless networks Procter & Gamble Prosch, Bernhardt Proteins, structure of Psion
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"Sensor Networks for Health Care, the Environment, and Homeland Defense" conference "Servant" software Servers and CoolTown defined and Napster and p2p networking and SETI SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project SETI@home SFLan Shardanand, Upendra Sharing: files food forestry resources knowledge public goods Shibuya Crossing (Tokyo) and distributed computing and mesh networks Shipley, Peter
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
by Michael Shermer · 1 Jan 1997 · 404pp · 134,430 words
plausibility. The search for extraterrestrial life is not pseudoscience because it is plausible, even though the evidence for it thus far is nonexistent (the SETI—Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence—program looks for extraterrestrial radio signals). Alien abduction claims, however, are pseudoscience. Not only is physical evidence lacking but it is highly implausible that aliens
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out to be right, but not so open that one blindly accepts every crazy claim that anyone makes. Sagan, for example, was open to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence which, at the time, was considered a moderately heretical idea; but he was too conscientious to accept the even more controversial claim that UFOs and
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