SETI Documents
Bioastronomy News at the Planetary Society
- Introduction to the SETI Debate. By Guillermo A. Lemarchand
- Can SETI Succeed? Not Likely. By Ernst Mayr
- In Defense of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. By Carl Sagan
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. By Carl Sagan and Frank Drake
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life. By Carl Sagan
Where Are They?. By Ian Crawford
Interstellar and Interplanetary Communication by Optical Masers. By Robert N. Schwartz and Charles H. Townes
William H. Calvin's Webbed Reprint Collection
Project Delphis: Dolphin Cognition Research
- Bubbly Dolphins.
- Evidence of Self-Awareness in the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). By Kenneth Marten and Suchi Psarakos
- Using Self-View Television to Distinguish between Self-Examination and Social Behavior in the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). By Kenneth Marten and Suchi Psarakos
Communication with Parrots: The Pepperberg Homepage
- Referential Communication with an African Grey Parrot. By Irene Pepperberg
- Studies to Determine the Intelligence of African Grey Parrots. By Irene Pepperberg
Articles and Papers about SETI@Home
- The SETI@home Sky Survey
- A New Major SETI Project Based on Project SERENDIP Data and 100,000 Personal Computers. By Walter T. Sullivan, III et al.
- First Contact. By Hazel Muir
- ET, Phone SETI@Home!. By Tony Phillips
- To Boldly Go, On Screen. By Charles Petit
- Getting Some Alien Experience.. By Jennifer Sullivan
- The Geeks and the Aliens. By Janelle Brown
- You Can Help Search for Signs of Intelligent Life. By Bill Snyder
- Be the First on Your Block to Detect Alien Life! By Janelle Brown
- What is Wrong with the SETI@home Project? By Armin Lenz
- Looking for E.T. By Deborah Wang
- SETI@Home Circuits Overloaded. By Daniel Sorid
- E.T. Can Now Phone Home On Clearer Line. By Jonathan Lipman
- The SETI Search Party Starts at Home...Yours. By Daniel Sorid
- SETI@home Reaches Two Million Users. By Andrew Bridges
- SETI@Home Soldiers Onward. By Mark Schrope
- Grupo de Investigação @ SETI (in Portuguese)
- Internautas em Busca de ETs. By Valquíria Rey (in Portuguese)
- Em Busca de ETs. By Lúcia Gonçalves (in Portuguese)
- Em Busca dos ETs. By Carlos Alberto Teixeira (in Portuguese)
- ET, Are You Home?. By Jason Meserve
- Business World Taps Potential of SETI@home Project By Kathleen Melymuka
- How SETI@home Works. By Kathleen Melymuka
- SETI@Home: Signal Crunching Yields Little So Far. By Leonard David
- SETI@home: Massively Distributed Computing for SETI. By Eric Korpela, Dan Werthimer, David Anderson, Jeff Cobb, and Matt Lebofsky
SETI Articles and SETI Guest Editorials at the SETI League
- The SETI League Technical Manual
- A Brief SETI Chronology. By Robert M. Owen
- Where is Everybody? By Arthur C. Clarke
- Should SETI Protocols Consider Interstellar Travel? By Peter Schenkel
- Review of Contact. By Larry Klaes (superb!)
- Wow!. By Greg Gillespie
- SETI Sensitivity: Calibrating on a "Wow!" Signal. By H. Paul Shuch
- Interpreting the "Wow!" signal. By H. Paul Shuch
- Optical SETI and the Arecibo Myth. By H. Paul Schuch
- Searching for Habitable Planets. By Ron Blue and Woody Lakey
- Don't Rule Out Interstellar Probes. By Gerald D. Nordley
- So You Want To "Get Into" SETI. By Larry Klaes
- Why Project Argus? By Amanda Baker
- The Search for Life in The Universe. By David Little
- Determining SETI Range. By Malcolm Mallette
- Alien Spaceships, SETI, and Public Perceptions. By Larry Klaes
- Marriage Made in Heaven. By H. Paul Schuch
- Transmitting from Earth. By Ray Norris
- Why Haven't We Heard Them? By H. Paul Schuch
- ET Phone Enrico Fermi. By Mike Shupp
- Distributed Processing Goes Galactic. By H. Paul Schuch
- The Knowledgeable Layman. By H. Paul Schuch
- Do LDEs Emanate From Alien Probes? By Chris Boyce
- Microprobes Won't Survive Interstellar Travel. By Mario Zadnik
- Cosmic Rays? No Problem! By Allen Tough
- The "L" Paradox By Charles Rubin
- Is Amateur SETI Even Possible? By H. Paul Schuch
- Interstellar Nano-Probes. By Leon T. Darcy
- Speaking for Earth. By Jon Lomberg
- Should SETI Probe for Probes? By Scot Stride
- ET Detection of Earth TV Unlikely. By Dale Lamm
- Hardly a Waste of Time. By Philip J. Hughes
- OK, What If We Hear Something? By H. Paul Schuch
- What Should We Tell the World? By Douglas A. Vakoch
- Seven Reasons for Widening the Search. By Allen Tough
Radio Sky Publishing
SETI Articles at the SETI Institute
- SETI List of Searches. By Jill Tarter
- References for List of Searches
- Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- Decision Process for Examining the Possibility of Sending Communications to Extraterrestrial Civilizations - A Proposal
- Rationale for Searching in the Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Figure of Merit - A Comparison of SETI Programs
- Social Effects of A Signal Detection
- Cultural Aspects of SETI
- Broadcasting to the Stars
- Arecibo Message
- Rare Earth? Are We So Special? By Seth Shostak
- Messages: From the Moon, to Mars, to the Stars. By Douglas A. Vakoch
- Ozma 40th Anniversary. By Greg Klerkx and Diane Richards
- Voyages Through Time
Profile of Jill Tarter, Director of Project Phoenix.
Sky & Telescope Magazine's SETI Page
- The Chance of Finding Aliens: Reevaluating the Drake Equation. By Govert Schilling
- SETI Searches Today. By Alan M. MacRobert and Andrew J. LePage
- The Next Big Step for SETI. By Alan M. MacRobert
- Astronomers See SETI in a New Light. By J. Kelly Beatty
- The Chance of Finding Aliens. By Alan M. MacRobert and Govert Schilling
SearchLites, The SETI League's Quarterly Newsletter
SETINews, The SETI Institute Newsletter
SETIQuest Magazine
Cosmos Magazine
Comunidade SETI (in Portuguese)
Cosmic Search Magazine
- Searching for Interstellar Communications. By Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison
- Twenty Years After..... By Philip Morrison
- A Reminiscence of Project Ozma. By Frank D. Drake
- Little Green Men, White Dwarfs or Pulsars?. By S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Trouble in Aquila. By Arthur C. Clarke
- What If We Succeed? By Walter Sullivan
- The Quest for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. By Carl Sagan
- Man's Role in the Galaxy. By Ronald N. Bracewell
- Generalized Life. By Jerome Rothstein
- Bio-Cosmology: A New NASA Thrust. By Bernard M. Oliver
- Neutrinos for Interstellar Communication. By Jay M. Pasachoff and Marc L. Kutner
- Extraterrestrial Politics. By Michael A.G. Michaud
- Minds and Millenia: The Psychology of Interstellar Communication. By Michael Arbib
- We Wait and Wonder. By John Kraus
- Extraterrestrial Life: Where is Everybody?. By Jesco von Puttkamer
Ad Adstra Magazine
- Earth Is a Planet, Too! Inhabited Worlds: It Takes One to Know One. By Mitchell K. Hobish
- Ex Astra: Life from the Stars: Organic Chemistry Amidst the Stars. By Michael Meyer
MARSBUGS, The Electronic Exobiology Newsletter
It's the 25th Anniversary of Earth's First (and Only) Attempt to Phone E.T. By Bill Steele.
- Print-quality version of the message graphics (plain black and white).
- Text file of the binary code in the message.
Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Message from Earth. By Frank Drake
My 40 Years of SETI. By Philip Morrison
Interstellar Message Says 'ET Call Earth'. By David Whitehouse. (this link may expire).
The ET Watcher!. By Priya Ganapati.
The Sagan Criteria for Life Revisited. By David Noever and Tony Phillips.
Astrobiology's Most Wanted. By David Noever and Tony Phillips.
Who Wrote the Book of Life? Picking up Where D'Arcy Thompson Left Off. By Leslie Mullen.
UW Experts Squelch Hope of Finding Folks on That Final Frontier. By Eric Sorensen.
Searching for Life in Our Solar System. By Bruce M. Jakosky.
Searching for Life in Other Solar Systems. By Roger Angel and Neville J. Woolf.
Glossary of SETI Terms. By Peter Coffee and Daniel Fox
Useful Formulas for Amateur SETI. By Daniel Fox
How Old Is ET? By Ray P. Norris
Can Science Survive a SETI Detection? By Ray P. Norris
Communicating with Aliens: the Psychological Dimension of Dialogue. By Anthony Judge.
If You're Out There, ET, Log On. By Paul Davies. See also here.
Evolution of Technological Civilizations: What Is Evolution, Technology, and Civilization? By Charles F. Urbanowicz
Communication with Alien Intelligence. By Marvin Minsky. Text version
Attitudes Toward Interstellar Communication: An Empirical Study. By William Sims Bainbridge.
Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Communication. By William Sims Bainbridge.
The Cosmic Black Cat in a Dark Room: SETI:Science or Science Fiction. By Tony DeRosa
Allen Tough's Collection of Papers at Invitation to ETI
Chris Boyce's Articles at ET-Presence
- The Fermi Paradox. Full ASCII text [20 K]
- The Logical Contact. Full ASCII text [23 K]
- Saints & Sinners. Full ASCII text [28 K]
- SETI - The Dark Side. Full ASCII text [21 K]
New Scientist Exobiology & SETI Articles
- First Contact. By Hazel Muir
- The Alien Spotters. By Marcus Chown
- Is There Anybody Out There? By Marcus Chown
- Life Force. By Paul Davies
- Stuff of Life. By Gretel Schueller
- SETI: The Search Continues. By Nigel Henbest
- Is There Anyone Out There? By John Gribbin
- Life and the Universe. By Nigel Henbest and Heather Couper
- Let There Be Life. By Phil Cohen
- Life is.... By Bob Holmes
- Sorry, We'll Be Late. By Robert Matthews
- When Will Earthlings See the Light?. By Nigel Henbest
- Bright Encounter. By Neil Savage
- Is Anybody Out There? ET-mail: You Have One New Message, From alienbeings@farfaraway. By Oliver Baker
Space Noise. By Frank Houston.
Are We Alone? By Tracy Swedlow.
Extraterrestrial Life: Are We Alone in the Universe? By Kryss Katsiavriades
When Evolution Creates the Same Design Again and Again. By Natalie Angier
Paddy Carroll's Collection of Papers at Science & Nature Web Pages
Are We Alone? By Gregg Easterbrook
Are We Alone in the Universe? By Raymond G. Bohlin
Dr. SETI's Starship: A Personal Journey. By H. Paul Schuch
SpaceDaily SETI News
- The Terra of Sol Alone. By Vince Stricherz
- Telescopes Search for ET's Beacon. By William J. Cromie
- No Bucks Without E.T. By Bruce Moomaw
- A Universe Of Life: Maybe Not. By Karl Hill
SETIWeb News Links
National Institute for Discovery Science Astrobiology & SETI Articles
- Consequences of Success in SETI: Lessons From the History of Science. By Steven J. Dick
- The Day After Contact: Forecasting Reactions to Extraterrestrial Life. By Albert A. Harrison and Colm A. Kelleher
- The Reenchantment of the Solar System: A Proposed Search for Local ETs. By Gregory L. Matloff
- Research Methodologies on Contact with ETI. John B. Alexander
- Space Missions Enabling SETI Searches Farther and Farther Out. By Claudio Maccone
- SETI, the Velocity-of-Light Limitation, and the Alcubierre Warp Drive: An Integrating Overview. By H.E. Puthoff
- SETI and the Testing of Quantum Gravity. By Peter Wilson
Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Skeptical View. By Glenn T. McDavid
The Physical Limits of Communication, or Why Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable from Noise. By Michael Lachmann, M.E.J. Newman, and Cristopher Moore. (PS file) [121 K]
The Fermi Paradox: An Approach Based on Percolation Theory. By Geoffrey A. Landis
The View from a Distant Star: Challenges of Interstellar Message-Making. By Douglas A. Vakoch
Celestial Waves: Framing Spiritual Principles for Interstellar Communication. By Douglas A. Vakoch
The Prerequisites of Life in Our Universe. By John Leslie
We Are Not Alone - Or Are We?. By Vince Stricherz
Are We Alone? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- How SETI Works. By Kenneth Chang
- E.T. Hunter Jill Tarter. By Kenneth Chang
- History of SETI. By Kenneth Chang
- Amateur SETI. By Kenneth Chang
- Odds of Success. By Kenneth Chang
- Alien Speculation. By Seth Shostak
Contact: Is Anyone Out There?
- Are We Alone?. By Todd Halvorson and Robyn Suriano
- Listening for Aliens. By Todd Halvorson
- Point, Click and Discover. By Todd Halvorson
- Very Modern Discoveries. By Todd Halvorson and Robyn Suriano
- In His Image and Likeness. By Todd Halvorson and Robyn Suriano
- Unknown After all These Years. By Robyn Suriano
- No Mars Attacks. By Robyn Suriano
- On the Rocks. By Robyn Suriano
- No Panic in the Streets. By Todd Halvorson
- Decades Old Fascination. By Billy Cox
- Deep Pockets. By Todd Halvorson
In Search for Intelligent Life, Did They Get a Wrong Number?. By Robert Cooke
The Search for Intelligence Widens. By Alastair Goldfisher
Ham Radio Expert Assists Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space. By Mark Waller
Berkeley Professor is First Academic Chairman of E.T. Hunt. By Evelyn Nieves
Fundamental Factors Affecting the Optimum Frequency Range for SETI. By Bernard M. Oliver
The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) In The Optical Spectrum: A Review. By Stuart A. Kingsley
SETI Primer at the Big Ear Radio Observatory
- The ABCs of SETI. By John Kraus
- Beginner's Guide to Radio Astronomy and SETI. By Cindy Brooman
- Contact? The SETI Search and Computers. By William G. Schmidt
- SETI: We've Only Just Begun. By Robert S. Dixon
- SETI Searcher's Day. By By Herb Johnson and Cindy Brooman
- SETI: Shall We Try?. By Dave Raub
About The Wow! Signal
- The "Wow!" Signal. By Barry Kawa
- The Big Ear Wow! Signal: What We Don't Know About It After 20 Years. By Jerry R. Ehman
- What Is the Significance of 6EQUJ5? By Jerry R. Ehman
On the Trail of SETI. By Dennis Overbye
Results from Five Years of SETI Observations. By Paul Horowitz and Carl Sagan
Observadores Montam Antenas e Ouvem Estrelas. By Maurício Moraes (in Portuguese)
So You Want to "Get Into" SETI. By Larry Klaes
Detectability of Extraterrestrial Technological Activities. By Guillermo A. Lemarchand
Gimme That E.T. Religion. By Charles Seife
Alô! Tem Alguém na Escuta? By Marcelo Gleiser (in Portuguese)
Ouvindo o Céu! By Carina Albrecht (in Portuguese)
Vida Extraterrestre: Uma Discussão Muito Polêmica! By Carina Albrecht (in Portuguese)
Articles on SETI Australia Centre and SETI Australia Centre Education Site
- Interstellar Messages as Easy as 1, 2, 3, 5?. By Carol Oliver
- What is SETI?. By Carol Oliver
- Messages...But Not From SETI. By Carol Oliver
- SETI Celebrates its 40th. By Carol Oliver
- A Balanced View of SETI - Doing Good Science. By Frank Stootman
- Science Education Using SETI as a Context for the NSW Stage 4 and 5 Science Syllabus. By Les Vozzo, Carol Oliver, Ken Silburn, and David Tweed
Space.com SETI Articles
- Message to Stars Was Sent 25 Years Ago. By Kenneth Silber
- Alien Intelligence? Think Again. By Guillermo Gonzalez
- Alien Investigators: A Look at the SETI Institute. By Daniel Sorid
- Arecibo: Celestial Eavesdropper. By Frederic Castel
- Argus Expands the Search For Life. By Daniel Sorid
- Cosmic Life-Seekers Get Their Own Scope. By Daniel Sorid
- Dr. Jill Tarter: Looking to Make 'Contact'. By Amy Veltman
- Intelligence in the Cosmos: Flesh or Machine? By Erik Baard
- Lasers Illuminate Search for E.T. By Daniel Sorid
- Microsoft Founder, Former CTO to Help Finance SETI Radio Array. By Leonard David
- Radio Astronomers Battle Noise. By Daniel Sorid
- SETI: Celebrating 40 Years of Watching the Skies. By Maia Weinstock
- Stepping Up the SETI Search. By Kenneth Silber
- First entry: Evidence for Aliens. By Seth Shostak
- Second entry: Scanning for Signals. By Seth Shostak
- Third entry: The Art of Observing. By Seth Shostak
- Fourth entry: Life in the Trenches. By Seth Shostak
- Final entry: Big Dish, Big Hopes. By Seth Shostak
- Advanced Aliens: Why ET Will Be More Advanced Than Humanity. By Seth Shostak
- Growing Up With ET. By Douglas Vakoch
- Curiosity Creates Teaching Opportunities. By Edna DeVore
- Life: Here? There? Everywhere?. By Edna DeVore
- Finding the Message in a SETI Signal. By Seth Shostak
- Children of the Stars. By Edna DeVore
- SETI 2020: A New Action Plan for the Search for Life. By Leonard David
- SETI—What To Do If a Signal Arrives. By Seth Shostak
- SETI Sleuths: Are You a Future SETI Scientist? By Edna DeVore
- SETI@Arecibo: Scientists Will Be Slow to Celebrate Any Contact. By Seth Shostak
- SETI@Arecibo: Bigger Is Better. By Seth Shostak
- SETI@Arecibo: The Plodding Pace Of Discovery. By Seth Shostak
- SETI@Arecibo: Arecibo Is Better Than Ever. By Seth Shostak
- Making Contact: The Etiquette of ET Announcements. By Seth Shostak
- What Would ET Look Like? Ask an Evo Devo. By Stephen Hart
- Engineering ET: The Path to Alternate Life Forms. By Robert Roy Britt
- In Search of Alien Lasers. By Seth Shostak
- How Far Is ET? By Seth Shostak
- Our Galaxy Should Be Teeming With Civilizations, But Where Are They? By Seth Shostak
- Fermi's Paradox II: What's Blocking Galactic Civilization? Or Are We Just Blind To It? By Seth Shostak
- Decoding E.T.: Ancient Tongues Point Way To Learning Alien Languages. By Douglas Vakoch
- Fermi's Paradox III: Zookeepers, Alien Visitors, Or Simple Life; How Can We Explain Our Isolation? By Seth Shostak
- How Will We React To First Contact? The SETI Institute Wants Your Answers. By Douglas Vakoch
- SETI Social Science: What Makes A Good Online Survey? By Douglas Vakoch
- Decoding E.T.: In Search Of A Cosmic Rosetta Stone. By Douglas Vakoch
- The Ultimate Long Distance Call. By Seth Shostak
- How Social Science Deciphers Our Thoughts On Alien Life. By Douglas Vakoch
- How Our View Of Ourselves Affects Beliefs About E.T. By Douglas Vakoch
- Is There Life Beyond Earth? By Andrew Chaikin
- Are We The Galaxy's Dumbest Civilization? By Seth Shostak
- Will ET Be Hostile? Alienated People Are More Likely to Say 'Yes' By Douglas Vakoch
Brains, Behaviour and Intelligence in Cetaceans (Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises). By Margaret Klinowska
Dolphins and Man.....Equals? By Regina Blackstock
Lecture about Dolphins. By Ulrich Reinartz
Matrioshka Brains. By Robert J. Bradbury
The Physics of Information Processing Superobjects: Daily Life Among the Jupiter Brains. By Anders Sandberg. (PS file)
SETI Participa do Encontro Internacional de Astronáutica, no Rio. By Bruno Dorfman Buys (in Portuguese)
Algoritmos Genéticos e Redes Neurais: Novas Ferramentas Computacionais para a Pesquisa SETI. By Mauro J. Cavalcanti (in Portuguese)
SETI@home and The Planetary Society: A Reminiscence and a Hope for the Future. By Charlene Anderson
Two Decades of SETI. By Tom McDonough
About SETI: Searching for Life. By Ron Hipschman
SETI: The Radio Search. By Ron Hipschman
Field of Dreams. By W. Wayt Gibbs
Abstracts of the Semi-Formal Meeting of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Brazil
A Strategy for SETI in Brazil. By Oscar Toshiaki Matsuura
A Supremacia da Vida (Ecos de Marte, Europa e Titã). By Carlos Eduardo Guerra Schrago (in Portuguese)
Exobiologia. By Oscar Toshiaki Matsuura (in Portuguese)
A Dedicated Newcomer for SETI. By Vanessa Thomas
How to Find the Frequency for E.T. By Seth Shostak
Allô, Ici la Terre!. By Claude Lafleur (In French)
Home Alone? The Search Continues. By Jennifer Laing
SETI and the Search for Life. By Christopher F. Chyba
Are We Alone? Where Are Our Nearest Neighbors? By Edward Weiler
Time Is Life - A Non-Specialist's Comment on Extraterrestrial Life. By Domingos Savio de Lima Soares
About SETI: Searching for Life. By Ron Hipschman
SETI: The Radio Search. By Ron Hipschman
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (NASA SP-419, 1977). By Philip Morrison, John Billingham, and John Wolfe
Searching for Good Science: The Cancellation of NASA's SETI Program. By Stephen J. Garber (PDF file)
Turning The Empirical Corner On Fi: The Probability Of Complex Intelligence. By Lori Marino (PDF file)
Exobiologia. By João Luiz Kohl Moreira (in Portuguese)
Space.About.com SETI Links
Life in the Universe SETI Page
Desperately seeking aliens. By Brian W. Aldiss
Evolution Elsewhere: A Scientific Speculation. By Lee Loevinger
Why I Believe SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) Funding is a Waste of Money. By Hugo de Garis
The Search for Life in the Universe: An Overview Of The Scientific And Cultural Implications Of Finding Life In The Cosmos. By Neil deGrasse Tyson
Assess The Probability That Intelligent Life Exists Elsewhere In The Universe. By Jody Mellor (Word format)
The Shape of Things to Come: Why E.T. Should Look Familiar. By Seth Shostak
The History of Optical SETI Research on Planet Earth. By Guillermo Lemarchand
The Age of Curiosity: Why the Sky Isn't Saturated with Radio Signals - A Proposed Update to the Drake Equation. By Michael Dayah
La Astrobiologia, Un Marco Para La Discusion De La Relación Hombre-Universo. By Julián Chela-Flores
Are We Alone In the Galaxy? The View from the High Frontier. By Mike Combs
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. By David Bofinger
The Fate of Noospheres: An Essay on the Goal of History and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life. By John J. Reilly
A Questão de Fermi. By Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro & Ronaldo Fernandes (in Portuguese)
A Famosa Equação de Drake. By Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro (in Portuguese)
Alien Speculations: The Rise and Fall of Star Faring Civilizations in Our Own Galaxy: Establishment of the First Space Colonies and the Likelihood of Contact Between Alien Cultures. By J.R. Mooneyham ![[New]](images/tinynew.gif)