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General Information (For extraterrestrial life in general,
see Life)
- News and Information Sites: ABCnews.com special report;
Sky & Telescope's page;
Space.com page;
How SETI Works
from howstuffworks.com.
- Professional Organizations: The Planetary Society
website; The
SETI Institute website;
The SETI League site;
NASA history page.
- SETI Institute:
A nonprofit corporation that serves as an institutional home
for scientific and educational projects relevant to the nature,
distribution, and prevalence of life in the universe.
Projects (For future interstellar missions,
see Space)
- Arecibo Message: Seti Institute page;
APOD 2000.01.23 page.
- Optical SETI Project:
Beginning in October 1998, has been searching for intense laser
pulses which might have been sent deliberately in our direction
by civilizations in order to initiate communication across interstellar
distances.
- Project
OZMA: Detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial
sources (S&T article).
- Project
Phoenix: The world's most sensitive and comprehensive
search for extraterrestrial intelligence, an effort to detect
extraterrestrial civilizations by listening for radio signals
that are either being deliberately beamed our way, or are inadvertently
transmitted from another planet.
- SETI@home Project:
Based at the University of California, Berkeley, analyzes data
from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico (BBC news story,
Planetary Society page).
UFO's
- The Young Skeptics Program page.
Articles
- M.M. Cirkovic, "The temporal aspect of the Drake equation
and SETI," astro-ph/0306186.
- M.M. Cirkovic, "Cosmic irony: SETI optimism from catastrophes?",
astro-ph/0309769.
- A.E. Reines & G.W. Marcy, "Optical SETI: A spectroscopic
search for laser emission from nearby stars," astro-ph/0112479.
- C. Sagan, "The quest for extraterrestrial intelligence,"
1978 article.
- M.C. Turnbull & J.C. Tarter, "Target selection for
SETI: 1. A catalog of nearby habitable stellar systems,"
astro-ph/0210675.
Books (For books on extraterrestrial life in general, see
Life)
- J. Heidmann, Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Cambridge
University Press 1997.
- B. McConnell, Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and
Communicating with Alien Civilizations, O'Reilly & Associates
2001 (space.com).
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