Tag: workshop

• Universe Today: Report on the Communicating Across the Cosmos workshop Part 3 Bridging the Vast Gulf

  Paul Patton opens the third part of the report by saying: “If extraterrestrial civilizations exist, the nearest is probably at least hundreds or thousands of light years away. Still, the greatest gulf that we will have to bridge to communicate with extraterrestrials is not such distances, but the gulf between human and alien minds. In mid-November,…

  Klara Anna Capova

  November 27, 2014

  reviews

  anthropology of outerspace, anthropology of science, interstellar messages, seti, universe today, workshop

• Universe Today Reports on the Communicating Across the Cosmos Workshop

  Since it was founded in 1984, the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California, has been a principal American venue for scientific efforts to discover evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations. In mid November, the institute sponsored a conference, “Communicating across the Cosmos”, on the problems of devising and understanding messages from other worlds. The conference drew 17 speakers from numerous disciplines, including linguistics,…

  Klara Anna Capova

  November 21, 2014

  reviews

  anthropology of outerspace, extraterrestrial intellingence, extraterrestrial life, messaging, SETI Institute, workshop