A tale of two analogues: Learning at a distance from the ancient Greeks and Maya and the problem of deciphering extraterrestrial radio transmissions

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 42, Issue 10-12, 1998, Pages 691-696

  Finney, Ben ^a   Bentley, Jerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL ENCODING;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL RADIO MESSAGE DECIPHERING; SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE (SETI);

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0032066781     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(98)00028-9     Document Type: Article

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