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" Bioastronomy - The Next Steps "
edited by George Marx.
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BL
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579841
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b409060
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Marx, George.
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Bioastronomy - The Next Steps : Proceedings of the 99th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union held in Balaton, Hungary, June 22-27, 1987 /\ edited by George Marx.
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Dordrecht :: Springer Netherlands,, 1988.
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Astrophysics and Space Science Library,; 144
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9789400929593
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: 9789401078306
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Session 1 Astrophysical Clues to the Habitability -- What Should We Look for When We Return to Mars? -- Water: An Absolute Requirement for Life -- Europa: The Prospects for an Ocean -- Is Uranus the Most Promising Planet for SETI? -- What Do We Know About the Nucleus of Comet Halley? -- Comets and Life -- Distribution of Planetary Systems -- Belt of Life in the Galaxy -- The Galactic Belt of Intelligent Life -- Landscapes on an Imaginary Planet -- Session 2 Search for Extrasolar Planets -- Planetary Detection Techniques: An Overview -- A Search for Planetary Mass Companions to Nearby Stars -- A Radial Velocity Search for Extrasolar Planets -- IRAS Statistics on Main Sequence Stellar IR Excesses and Models of Corcumstellar Particle Clouds -- Progress in Determining the Space Orientation of Stars -- A Photometric Approach to Detecting Earth-Sized Planets -- Systematic Aspects of Direct Extrasolar Planet Detection -- Direct Imaging of Extra-Solar Planetary Systems With a Low-Scattered Light Telescope -- Discovery/Study of Planetary Systems Using Astrometry from Space -- Session 3 Search for Primitive Life -- Optical Interferometry and the Detection of Evidence of Life -- Searching for Extrasolar Life With Space Telescopes -- Session 4 Alternate Biologies? Alternate Pathways? -- Development of Constraints Imposed by Cosmic Evolution Towards Life -- Cosmic Metabolsim: The Origin of Macromolecules -- Exotic Chemical Life -- A Sceptic'S View -- Hydrothermal Energy Flow of Planetary Bodies and the Creation of Living Systems -- Survival Strategies for Life in High UV, Low Density Environment -- Anticrick: The Nothing is Not Regulable -- The Right-Left Asymmetry in Biology -- Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich (1914-1987) -- Chemical Production of Optically Pure Systems -- The Interferometer Paradigm for Mammalian Binaural Hearing -- Session 5 Is Intelligence an Inevitable Evolutionary Trait? -- Fast Tracks to Intelligence -- Form and Function in Neurobiology -- Can We Communicate With Other Species on this Planet? -- SETI and the Physical Scientist'S Misconstrual of Evolutionary Biology -- Can We Communicate with Aliens? -- CETI: Historical Retrospective of Interaction Of Cultures -- Some Biological Implications on Drake'S Formula -- Regional Jurisdiction in Our Galaxy -- One More Solution to the Fermi Paradox -- The Evolution of Technological Civilizations Within the Limits of their Own Solar System -- The Galactic Center -- Supercivilizations as Possible Products of the Progressive Evolution of Matter in the Universe -- Session 6 Prospects for Detecting Technological Civilizations -- Being Optimistic About SETI -- Fermi Paradox and Alternative Strategies for SETI: The Anthropic Principle and the Search for Solar Analogs -- The SETI Related Use of Large Astronomical Archives -- Artifical Signal Detectors -- Search for Artificial Cosmic Radio Emission -- The Quasat Satellite and its Set Applications -- SETI With a French Accent -- Field Test Results With the Targeted Search MCSA -- The Berkeley Piggyback SETI Program: Serendip II -- 3 Pulse/Multiple Stage Continuous Wave Detection Algorithms -- The CETI Ellipsoid and the Supernova 1987A -- Energy Saving Interstellar Communication With Moderate Effort -- Optical Lasers for CETI -- SETI in Optical Range With the 6M Telescope: Mania -- Stars as Gravitational Lenses -- The Pro'S and Con'S of Gravitational Lenses in CETI -- The Next Steps: 20 Possibilities -- Session 7 What If We Succeed? -- The Tale of a Candidate Signal -- The Argument for Eti in the Edo Age -- What If We Succeed? (A Media Viewpoint) -- Who Will Speak for Earth? -- The Flag of the Earth.
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Physics.
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SpringerLink (Online service)
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Proceedings of the 99th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Balaton, Hungary, June 22-27, 1987
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