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Extraterrestrial Languages by Daniel Oberhaus
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May 07, 2024 | ISBN 9780262548649

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Praise

“Extraterrestrial Languages is fascinating…a  sober study of real—scientific, mathematical, artistic, and philosophical—efforts to enact this linguistic rendezvous.”
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“…an engaging read…” —Science

“For any one curious about communicating with the unknown, then this is a fine book.” —ASTRONOMY NOW

Table Of Contents

TOC: 
1 A Brief History of Talking to Aliens 1
2 From CETI to METI 19
3 Aliens on Earth 37
4 Cosmic Computers and Interstellar Cats 55
5 Is There a Language of the Universe? 71
6 Toward a Lingua Cosmica 93
7 How to Talk in Space 111
8 Art as a Universal Language 135
9 The Many Futures of METI 155
Appendix A: The Arecibo Message 171
Appendix B: The Cosmic Call Transmissions 179
Appendix C: Lincos 193
Appendix D: The Lambda Calculus and Its Application to Astrolinguistics 203
References 225
Index 247

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