Bioastronomy - The Next Steps: Proceedings of the 99th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union held in Balaton, Hungary, June 22–27, 1987 (Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 144)

Front Matter....Pages i-xx Front Matter....Pages 1-1 What should We Look for When We Return to Mars?....Pages 3-13 Water: An Absolute Requirement for Life....Pages 15-19 Europa: The Prospects for an Ocean....Pages 21-28 Is Uranus the Most Promising Planet for SETI?....Pages 29-30 What Do We Know About the Nucleus of Comet Halley?....Pages 31-37 Comets and Life....Pages 39-40 Distribution Of Planetary Systems....Pages 41-47 Belt Of Life in the Galaxy....Pages 49-59 The Galactic Belt of Intelligent Life....Pages 61-66 Landscapes on an Imaginary Planet....Pages 67-76 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 Planetary Detection Techniques: An Overview....Pages 79-82 A Search for Planetary Mass Companions to Nearby Stars....Pages 83-90 A Radial Velocity Search for Extrasolar Planets....Pages 91-92 Iras Statistics on Main Sequence Stellar IR Excesses and Models of Circumstellar Particle Clouds....Pages 93-99 Progress in Determining the Space Orientation of Stars....Pages 101-105 A Photometric Approach to Detecting Earth-Sized Planets....Pages 107-116 Systematic Aspects of Direct Extrasolar Planet Detection....Pages 117-123 Direct Imaging of Extra-Solar Planetary Systems with a Low-Scattered Light Telescope....Pages 125-130 Discovery and Study of Planetary Systems Using Astrometry from Space....Pages 131-136 Front Matter....Pages 137-137 Optical Interferometry and the Detection of Evidence of Life....Pages 139-152 Front Matter....Pages 137-137 Searching for Extrasolar Life with Space Telescopes....Pages 153-157 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 Constraints Imposed by Cosmic Evolution Towards the Development of Life....Pages 161-165 Cosmic Metabolism: The Origin of Macromolecules....Pages 167-178 Exotic Chemical Life....Pages 179-185 A Sceptic’S View....Pages 187-194 Hydrothermal Energy Flow of Planetary Bodies and the Creation of Living Systems....Pages 195-200 Survival Strategies for Life in High UV, Very Low Density Environment....Pages 201-205 Anticrick: The Nothing is not Regulable....Pages 207-211 The Right-Left Asymmetry in Biology....Pages 213-221 Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich (1914–1987)....Pages 222-222 Chemical Production of Optically Pure Systems....Pages 223-231 Front Matter....Pages 233-233 The Interferometer Paradigm for Mammalian Binaural Hearing....Pages 235-235 Fast Tracks to Intelligence (Considerations from Neurobiology and Evolutionary Biology)....Pages 237-245 Form and Function in Neurobiology....Pages 247-252 Can we Communicate with Other Species on this Planet?....Pages 253-264 SETI and the Physical Scientists Misconstrual of Evolutionary Biology....Pages 265-265 Can We Communicate with Aliens?....Pages 267-272 CETI: Historical Retrospective of Interaction of Cultures....Pages 273-277 Some Biological Implications on Drake’s Formula....Pages 279-280 Regional Jurisdiction in Our Galaxy (A Possible Explanation for the Absence of Extraterrestrial Signals)....Pages 281-285 Front Matter....Pages 233-233 One More Solution to the Fermi Paradox....Pages 287-288 The Evolution of Technological Civilizations within the Limits of Their Own Solar Systems....Pages 289-290 The Galactic Center: A Nice Place to Visit — But You Wouldn’t Want to Live There....Pages 291-293 Supercivilizations as Possible Products of the Progressive Evolution of Matter....Pages 295-302 Front Matter....Pages 303-303 Being Optimistic about SETI....Pages 305-312 Fermi Paradox and Anternative Strategies for SETI: Anthropic Principle and Search for Solar Analog....Pages 313-313 The SETI Related Use of Large Astronomical Archives....Pages 315-317 Artificial Signal Detectors....Pages 319-335 Search for Artifical Cosmic Radio Emission....Pages 337-342 The Quasat Satellite and its SETI Applications....Pages 343-349 Seti with a French Accent....Pages 351-355 Field Test Results with the Targeted Search MCSA....Pages 357-362 The Berkeley Piggyback SETI Program: SERENDIP II....Pages 363-369 Three Pulse/Multiple Stage Continuous Wave Detection Algorithms....Pages 371-376 The CETI Ellipsoid and the Supernova 1987A....Pages 377-377 Energy Saving Interstellar Communication with Moderate Effort....Pages 379-379 Optical Lasers for CETI....Pages 381-388 SETI in Optical Range with the 6M Telescope (Mania)....Pages 389-390 Stars as Gravitational Lenses....Pages 391-394 The Pro’s and Con’s of Gravitational Lenses in CETI....Pages 395-395 Front Matter....Pages 303-303 The Next Steps: 20 Possibilities....Pages 397-404 Front Matter....Pages 405-405 The Tale of a Candidate Signal....Pages 407-413 The Argument for ETI in the Edo Age....Pages 415-415 What If We Succeed? (A Media Viewpoint)....Pages 417-424 Who Will Speak For Earth?....Pages 425-429 Back Matter....Pages 431-434