Legal Frameworks for Two Contact Scenarios

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 258-262

  Schenkel, Peter ^a  

^a Ciespal Cas 17 11 6064 ^*  (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES; EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE; LEGAL FRAMEWORKS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 2242475237     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (18)

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3. Donald E. Tarter, Reply Policy and Signal Type: Assumptions Drawn from Minimal Source Information, paper IAA-95-IAA.9.2.12, presented to the 46th International Astronautical Federation Congress, Oslo, p. 2 (1995).
4. Peter Schenkel, ETI: A Challenge for Change, Vantage Press, New York, p. 184, 1988
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6. Michael Papagiannis, The Evolution of Technological Civilisations within the Limits of their Own Solar System, Astronomy Dept., Boston University, p. 290.
7. This view was shared by several participants of the 46th IAF Congress, Oslo (1995), among them Aldo Armando Cocca, director of the ISSL.
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15. Frank Drake, Circumstellar Habitable Zones: An Overview, op. cit., p. 67.
16. Scientists are already calling attention to the need to detect near Earth objects and to destroy them. Carl Sagan, Bioastronomy News, 7, No.4, p.2, (1995).
17. Peter Schenkel, The Likely Organisational Order of Advanced Intelligences, Paper presented at the Third International Bioastronomy Symposium, Val Cenis, p. 3, (1990); F. Drake also thinks that "wars don't exist among immortal extraterrestrials", op. cit., p. 161.
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