Found Naked and Dead

Biographies & Memoirs

McConnell, Brian

True Crime

New English Library

"What do we need to know about to discover life in space?" --Frank Drake, 1961In the early 1960s, Frank Drake, a young astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia, developed what is now known as the "Drake Equation" in an effort to determine how many intelligent, communicative civilizations our galaxy could harbor. For forty years, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has combed the skies in search of signals from star systems within the galaxy. In Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations, author Brian McConnell goes behind the scenes and examines what goes into the search for intelligent life.SETI is a four-step process. First we have to know where to look; then we must be able to send and receive signals to that star system. Once signals arrive, scientists then need to be able to interpret those signals into something that can be understood. And although we haven't yet received any signals (except for our own Earth-based transmissions), we'll eventually have to figure out a protocol for responding.Beyond Contact introduces you to:
<ul>
<li>The history of SETI research, including the early searches of Project Ozma, traditional radio astronomy, the search for intelligence in optical wavelengths (known as Optical SETI, or OSETI), and the SETI@home project. </li>
<li>An overview of the Drake Equation and the Rare Earth Hypothesis, which scientists use to estimate the number of planets in our galaxy that could harbor intelligent, communicative life forms. </li>
<li>How signals are sent and received over interstellar distances. The author explains the principles of signal and image processing, and how SETI researchers identify and process analog signals using Fourier transforms to see how the power in a signal is distributed across different frequencies. </li>
<li>How to build a general-purpose symbolic language for sending signals, and even computer programs, with present-day SETI equipment. The ability to transmit computer programs enables us to let another civilization know about our knowledge and technological capabilities.</li>
</ul>The author also shows how SETI research--though often thought to be a mere flight of fancy--has spawned technological improvements in astronomy, computers, and wireless communications.Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations sidesteps the "little green men" approach to take a hard, realistic look at the technologies behind the search for intelligent life in our universe.

Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

O'Reilly Media

Holy Killers: True Stories Murd

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Headline

Satanic worshippers revel in the phenomena and new and experimental religions and cults gather more and more followers who believe that the devil is not far from controlling us all. Brian McConnell has investigated the phenomena.

The Possessed

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

This book provides the facts about demonic possession, usually regarded as taboo. McConnell has talked to clergy and psychiatrists, attended exorcisms, questioned exorcists and the possessed to obtain the information for this book.

The Possessed: True Tales of Demonic Possession

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Hardcover, DJ 6 1/2" x 9 3/4" 216 Pages The Book Guild, Lewes, Sussex

Multiple Murder and Demonic Possession: Another Reality

Tatum, William David

The Book Guild Ltd.

The History of Assassination.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Aurora Pub

This volume presents the final results of excavations at the site of La Muculufa, Sicily. This meticulous study documents a village dating to the later third millennium BC: its Castelluccian architecture being amongst the most extensively recorded of any site.

La Muculufa II (Archaeologia Transatlantica, 12)

History

Europe

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World

Satanic worshippers revel in the phenomena and new and experimental religions and cults gather more and more followers who believe that the devil is not far from controlling us all. Brian McConnell has investigated the phenomena.

Caxton Publishing

 Based on components already in existence, this manual details a reference design for an interplanetary spacecraft that is simple, durable, fully reusable and comprised mostly of water. Using such an accessible material leads to a spacecraft architecture that is radically simpler, safer and cheaper than conventional capsule based designs. If developed, the potential affordability of the design will substantially open all of the inner solar system to human exploration.A spacecraft that is comprised mostly of water will be much more like a living cell or a terrarium than a conventional rocket and capsule design. It will use water for many purposes before it is superheated in electric engines for propulsion, purposes which include radiation shielding, heat management, basic life support, crew consumption and comfort. The authors coined the term "spacecoaches" to describe them, as an allusion to the Prairie Schooners of the Old West, which were simple, rugged, and could live off the land.

A Design for a Reusable Water-Based Spacecraft Known as the Spacecoach (SpringerBriefs in Space Development)

Science & Math

Tolley, Alexander

Astronomy & Space Science

Springer

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