The search for extraterrestrial life : essays on science and technology / edited by P. Day.

Contributor(s):

Day, P

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Proceedings of the Royal InstitutionPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (167 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780191506147
0191506141

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Search for extraterrestrial life.DDC classification:

576.8/39 22

LOC classification:

QB54 .S417 1998eb

Other classification:

02.00

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Contents:

The search for extraterrestrial life-and the future of life on Earth / Arnold Wolfendale -- Magellan looks at Venus / Dan McKenzie -- Meteorites: messengers from the past / Monica M. Grady -- Television beyond the Millenium / Will Wyatt -- Molecular information processing: will it happen? / Peter Day -- 'There or thereabouts' / Andrew Wallard -- Pondering on Pisa / John Burland -- An arts/science interface: medieval manuscripts, pigments, and spectroscopy / Robin J.H. Clark -- The Royal Institution.

Summary: This volume of selected Evening Discourses from the Royal Institution offers an authoritative and accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science and technology. The subjects are wide-ranging, from studies of Venus and what they tell us about the Earth, the history and possible future of television, to the interface between art and science - using spectroscopy to analyse the pigments in Medieval manuscripts. Will we be able to build machines with molecular-basedmemories? How do you deal with an historic tower `founded on jelly and slowly inclining to the point at which it is ab.

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This volume of selected Evening Discourses from the Royal Institution offers an authoritative and accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science and technology. The subjects are wide-ranging, from studies of Venus and what they tell us about the Earth, the history and possible future of television, to the interface between art and science - using spectroscopy to analyse the pigments in Medieval manuscripts. Will we be able to build machines with molecular-basedmemories? How do you deal with an historic tower `founded on jelly and slowly inclining to the point at which it is ab.

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