what massage about life to intelligent civilization
For this assignment, pretend you are part of a team that will design a message to an intelligent civilization about life on Earth.
- Briefly describe early efforts at interplanetary communication by Marconi and Tesla. Why were these attempts doomed from the start? (30)
- Briefly discuss early SETI efforts What do we mean by the bandwidth of a signal and why does SETI concentrate on searching for narrow-bandwidth signals?(30)
- What are the three general categories of signals that might be detected at a great distance? What are the current prospects for detecting each type through SETI efforts? (30)
- Summarize the current techniques of radio SETI and some of the major current projects. (30)
- What are the three distinct categories of civilzations as outline by Kardashev? Which one(s) can we imagine detecting through their use of resources and why? (30)