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The last pictures /
Human civilizations' longest lasting artifacts are not the great Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the communications satellites that circle our planet. In a stationary orbit above the equator, the satellites that broadcast our TV signals, route our phone calls, and proce...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Geographies of Time; 1 Ancient Aliens; 2 One Hundred Pictures, Frozen in Time; "Belonging": Human/Archive/World; 3 One Hundred Pictures; Notes on the One Hundred Pictures; 4 Field Notes; The Artifact Cover Etching; Talking Mathematics to Aliens? (Get Real! ... or Have Fun with Anthropomorphism 101!); Putting a Time Capsule in Orbit: What Should It Be Made Of?; The EchoStar XVI Mission; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Credits.