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Extraterrestrial Civilizations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

J. C. Ribes  and
F. Biraud
J. C. Ribes
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney
F. Biraud
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia
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The subject of extraterrestrial civilizations is relevant to astronomy in two ways. Firstly, the very existence of life outside Earth is dependent upon the picture that astronomers can draw of the Universe, and we will see how that picture allows us to be very optimistic. Then, if we think that there are intelligent beings in space, the detection of signals from them is an astronomical problem, and we will see that it most probably concerns radio astronomers.

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Invited Papers
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , July 1971 , pp. 11 - 13
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1971

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