Searching for Interstellar Communications

The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication From Ancient Times to the Internet

by David Kahn  · 1 Feb 1963  · 1,799pp  · 532,462 words

out into the open, and stimulated a vigorous colloquy among scientists that is still continuing. The article, by Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi, was entitled “Searching for Interstellar Communications.” After briefly recapitulating the likelihood that long-lived civilizations might arise in-other solar systems, they said: It follows, then, that near some star rather

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and workmanlike discussion on which I have leaned heavily. All references in the text to Cocconi and Morrison refer to Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison, “Searching for Interstellar Communications,” Nature, CLXXXIV (September 19, 1959), 844-846, reprinted, IC, 160-164. I am grateful to Frank Drake, William F. Friedman, and Mario Pei for reading

Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars

by Lee Billings  · 2 Oct 2013  · 326pp  · 97,089 words

: Looking for Longevity Ronald N. Bracewell, The Galactic Club: Intelligent Life in Outer Space (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1974). Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison, “Searching for Interstellar Communications,” Nature, vol. 184 (1959), pp. 844–46. Frank Drake and Dava Sobel, Is Anyone Out There? The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (New York: Delacorte

Coming of Age in the Milky Way

by Timothy Ferris  · 30 Jun 1988  · 661pp  · 169,298 words

Dick, 1984, p. 111. 6. Fontenelle, 1929, pp. 12, 82. 7. Ibid., p. 55. 8. Ibid., pp. 114–115. 9. Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison, “Searching for Interstellar Communications,” Nature, September 19, 1959. 10. William Proxmire, press release dated February 16, 1978, p. 2. The senator did not reveal the source of his intelligence

Beyond: Our Future in Space

by Chris Impey  · 12 Apr 2015  · 370pp  · 97,138 words

this game too, and it’s known by the acronym of SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. In an influential paper published in Nature in 1959, “Searching for Interstellar Communications,” Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison argued that a search was warranted even though there was no evidence for life any place other than Earth. They

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Sail” by R. Zubrin and A. Martin 1999 (slide presentation), online at http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/library/meetings/fellows/nov99/320Zubrin.pdf. 21. “Searching for Interstellar Communications” by G. Cocconi and P. Morrison 1959. Nature, vol. 184, pp. 844–46. 22. “The Drake Equation Revisited. Part 1,” a retrospective by Frank Drake

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, 234, 239, 254 evolution and technology of, 237–39, 242–43, 242 lack of signals detected by, 236–37, 240–44 new paradigms for, 258 “Searching for Interstellar Communications” (Cocconi and Morrison), 187 sea travel: early human migration through, 8, 9 exploration by, 109, 262 propulsion in, 67–68 self-replication, 226–28, 258

The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars

by Jo Marchant  · 15 Jan 2020  · 544pp  · 134,483 words

Men.” “Were these pulsations”: Bell Burnell, “Little Green Men.” “Little Green Men”: Penny, “The SETI Episode.” in a Nature paper: Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison, “Searching for Interstellar Communications,” Nature 184 (1959): 844–46. Frank Drake soon undertook: Dick, “Twentieth Century History,” 139. “excitement rose”: Penny, “The SETI Episode,” 4. “the less contact you

Thinking in Numbers

by Daniel Tammet  · 15 Aug 2012  · 212pp  · 68,754 words

, about their cars, about whether they knew war or cancer. After graduating from Harvard with a doctorate in radio astronomy, Drake conducted the first ever search for interstellar communication. On 8 April 1960, he aimed the radio at two stars much like our sun, twelve light years from Earth. Over the next two months