Accession Number:

AD0626675

Title:

THE SEARCH FOR A RATIONALE FOR INTERSTELLAR COMMUNICATIONS

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA

Personal Author(s):

• Dole, Stephen H.

Report Date:

1966-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

8.0

Abstract:

The paper explores the motives that have been given, or that might lie behind the expressed desire to communicate with other intelligent life forms living elsewhere in our Galaxy.

Descriptors:

• *SPACE BIOLOGY
• *INFORMATION THEORY
• SPACE PROBES
• PLANETS
• SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
• SPACE(ROOM)

Subject Categories:

• Biology
• Radio Communications

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE