Cartoons in the history of SETI - La SETI League

Passive SETI. ○ p1: Sidney Harris, Alan Davis,. Cabu, Vinci, Monet. ○ p5: Alan Dunn. ○ SETI and Politics. ○ p6 : Luz, Riss. ○ p7: Pierre Fournier ...
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Cartoons in the history of SETI Elisabeth Piotelat

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Cartoonists ●

Passive SETI ●





p1: Sidney Harris, Alan Davis, Cabu, Vinci, Monet p5: Alan Dunn

SETI and Politics ●

p6 : Luz, Riss



p7: Pierre Fournier

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Cartoonists ●

Active SETI ●

p14: Patrick Chappatte



p9: Charb



p14: Jul



p11: David Levine



p11: Mork Walter

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Passive SETI ●

Cartoonists ask questions: ●



Alan Dunn: where are New-York trashcans?

Physicists ask other questions: ●

Fermi, Teller, Konopinski:

“Where are they?”

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1950 Fermi Paradox

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SETI and politics ●

1969 : Science on the Moon?



1981 : Proxmire Amendment

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1969: Hebdo Hara Kiri n°24/25

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1981: intelligence in the congress ?

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Active SETI ●

The search for ourselves.



How to represent humanity?

Jon Lomberg Portrait of humanity (2007) Can't be published in France (naked children)

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1972: Pioneer (Drake, Salzman, Sagan)

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2015 : #JeSuisCharlie ●

Freedom?

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2015: Copenhagen, Tunis... ●

You are free, but...

Emportée par le temps, poussée par un but qui fuit toujours, la Terre roule avec rapidité dans l'espace. Camille Flammarion Astronomie populaire 1880

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