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)

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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	02.05.2024
Zusatzinfo	93 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