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   BROWSE BY AUTHOR : DOUGLAS VAKOCH
The Pulse of Life: Music of Our World and Beyond -- Douglas Vakoch  -- Space.com  -- September 12, 2002

American composer, Andrew Kaiser, suggests that the structure of terrestrial music might provide clues to creating interstellar messages that could be understood by extraterrestrial intelligence. In the process, he suggests that music may provide a means of communicating "something of our consciousness that is essentially human, regardless of the civilization from which it emerges."

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Would ET Vote? The Likelihood of Extraterrestrial Democracy -- Douglas Vakoch  -- Space.com  -- August 15, 2002

According to Harrison, a Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Davis, if we detect a signal from advanced extraterrestrials, there?s a good chance that the basic principles of democracy play a role in their society.

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Making Contact: The Etiquette of ET Announcements -- Douglas Vakoch  -- Space.com  -- February 28, 2001

Article discusses efforts of SETI scientists to plan for the day we might receive a signal from life beyond Earth. Working with diplomats and space lawyers, they have helped develop protocols that guide the activities of SETI scientists who think they may have detected extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Making Contact: The Ettiquite of ET Announcements -- Douglas Vakoch  -- Space.com  -- February 28, 2001

Scientists such as the SETI Institute?s John Billingham and Jill Tarter have taken the lead in planning for the day we might receive a signal from life beyond Earth. Working with diplomats and space lawyers, they have helped develop protocols that guide the activities of SETI scientists who think they may have detected extraterrestrial intelligence.

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