| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
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 process our credit card transactions experience no atmospheric drag. Their inert hulls will continue to drift around Earth until the Sun expands into a red giant and engulfs them about 4.5 billion years from now. This book, co-published by Creative Time Books, chronicles a project intended to explain to someon. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Paglen, Trevor -- Themes, motives.
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Paglen, Trevor. |
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Themes, motives. |
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Paglen, Trevor -- Themes, motives. |
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Interstellar communication.
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Interstellar communication. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Creative Time, Inc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Paglen, Trevor. Last pictures. Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, 2012 9780520275003 (DLC) 2012017150 (OCoLC)793421795 |
| ISBN |
9780520954298 (electronic book) |
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0520954297 (electronic book) |
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1282134612 |
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9781282134614 |
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9780520275003 |
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0520275004 |
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