Bioastronomy — The Next Steps: Proceedings of the 99th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union held in Balaton, Hungary, June 22-27, 1987

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