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Speaking Beyond Earth

Perspectives on Messaging Across Deep Space and Cosmic Time

Paul E. Quast, David Dunér (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
277 Seiten
2024
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-9000-1 (ISBN)
67,30 inkl. MwSt
Surveying and cataloguing the variety of broadcasted signals, space-time capsules and collections of various oddities deposited on other astronomical bodies through a series of essays and photos, this collection chronicles the changing relationships, customs and assumptions that stem from these pieces of residual material culture.
Since the dawn of the Space Age, mankind has sent small echoes of humanity into the far reaches of space, hoping to impress the memory of itself upon the deep-time archaeological legacy of the Solar System. These have been in the form of broadcasted signals, space-time capsules and collections of various oddities deposited upon other astronomical bodies, all cast across the higher frontier for imagined, exotic audiences. Surveying and cataloguing the variety of these artifacts through a series of essays and photos, this collection chronicles the changing relationships, customs and assumptions that stem from these pieces of residual material culture.

Paul E. Quast is an interdisciplinary scholar based in Scotland. He is a director for the Beyond the Earth foundation, an NGO studying the semiotics of information-exchange systems, while assessing emergent, long-term anthropogenic legacies for the benefit of future stewardship applications. David Dunér is a professor of history of science and ideas at Lund University, Sweden. He is a board member and director of METI International, and member of the working group on the Historical, Philosophical, Societal and Ethical Issues in Astrobiology within the European Astrobiology Institute.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Foreword: Beyond Ourselves: An Archaeological Reflection on Sending Messages to Other Worlds

Alice Gorman

A Brief History and an Imminent Future

Part 1: Why We Speak

Prologue: Murmuring from Earth: A Human Portrait of Representational Phenomena Across Deep Space and Cosmic Time

Paul E. Quast

A Cultural History of “Speaking” for Earth: A Taxonomic Approach for Exoatmospheric “Messages”

Paul E. Quast

Part 2: What We

The Tyranny of Assumption: What We Should and Should Not Expect ETI to Understand in Our Messaging

John W. Traphagan and Kelly Smith

SETI and Terrestrial Visual Perception: What Can We Learn About Communicating with Other Species from Human Visual Perception and Visual Ecology?

Christopher Gillespie

Approaches to Communicating with Extraterrestrial Intelligence

John W. Traphagan

How We Think We Know What We Think We Know and How the Unknown Others May Think They Know What We Think We Know (and Show)

Paul E. Quast and Klara Anna Capova

Between pages 130 and 131 are 8 color plates with 14 photographs

Part 3: Reading Outside the Message

Per aspera ad astra: But Does One Really Speak for Them All?

Klara Anna Capova and Paul E. Quast

Finding Meaning in Terra Nullius and Beyond: Uncovering Clues in the Exoatmospheric Archaeological Record

Paul E. Quast

Who Will Speak for Earth? Stakeholders, Scholars, and Stewardship in the Future Exoatmospheric Record

Paul E. Quast

Afterword: Challenges

Cornelius Holtorf

Glossary

Appendix: A Profile of Humanity: The Cultural Signature of Earth’s Inhabitants Beyond the Atmosphere

Paul E. Quast

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 80 photos
Verlagsort Jefferson, NC
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Technik Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-10 1-4766-9000-6 / 1476690006
ISBN-13 978-1-4766-9000-1 / 9781476690001
Zustand Neuware
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