During 1960, engineer Robert W Bussard proposes the interstellar ramjet.
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The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.
Book References
The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.
Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.
For discussion of the Bussard ramjet see the following:
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Discussion by:
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Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61 (in Chapter 5), 243 (in Chapter 24) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition. |
2 |
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Baxter, Stephen in his “Deep Future” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 154-155 (in Chapter 18) of the Gollancz paperback edition. |
2 |
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Bergier, Jacques in his “Extraterrestrial Visitations From Prehistoric Times to the Present” (1970) at page 11 (in Chapter 1) of the Signet paperback edition, at page 12 of the Futura paperback edition (published under the title “Mysteries of the Earth”). |
1 |
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Berry, Adrian in his “The Giant Leap” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-147 (in Chapter 11) of the revised Headline softcover edition. |
3 |
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Clark, Stuart in his “Life on Other Worlds and How to Find It” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 149 (in Chapter 11) of the Springer hardback edition. |
1 |
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Crawford, Ian A in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62-66 (in Chapter 8) of the |
5 |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Interstellar ramjet”. The relevant entry is available online at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/I/interstellar_ramjet.html |
1 |
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Drake, Frank and Sobel, Dava in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123-124 (in Chapter 6) of the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
2 |
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Dyson, Freeman in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 46 (in Chapter 7) of the |
1 |
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Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 92-94 (in Chapter 8) of the NEL paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s “Extraterrestrial Encounter). |
3 |
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Gallant, Roy A in “Beyond Earth : The Search for Extraterrestrial Life” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 168 (in Chapter 12) of the Four Winds hardback edition. |
1 |
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Goldsmith, Donald and Tobias Owen in their “The Search for Life in the Universe” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 375-376 (in Chapter 19) of the Benjamin Cummings softcover edition, at page 444 (in Chapter 18) of the 1992 Addison Wesley softcover revised second edition. |
2 |
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Greenwell, Richard J in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 115 (forming part of an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial hypothesis”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
1 |
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Kuiper, Thomas B H and Morris, Mark in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 202 (in Chapter 37) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of Sebastian von Hoerner “The General Limits of Space Travel”, Science, Volume 137 (1962.0700), pages 18ff. |
1 |
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Landsburg, Alan in his “In Search of Extraterrestrials” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111, 112 (in Chapter 9) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
2 |
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Lunan, Duncan in his “Man and the Stars” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-33, 35 (in Chapter 2) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at pages 40-43, 45 of the Corgi paperback edition. |
5 |
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Mallove, Eugene F and Matloff, Gregory L in their “The Starflight Handbook” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14 (in Chapter 1), 107-121 (in Chapter 7 generally), 123-137 (in Chapter 8 generally), 158-159 (in Chapter 10) of the Wiley hardback edition. |
33 |
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McDonough, Thomas R in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Listening for Life in the Cosmos” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 178 (in Chapter 13) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
1 |
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Morrison, Philip in “Interstellar Communication : Scientific Perspectives” (1974) (edited by Cyril Ponnamperuma and A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 171-172 (in Chapter 10) of the Houghton Mifflin softcover edition. |
2 |
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Nicolson, Iain in his “The Road to the Stars” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 132-134 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
3 |
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Oliver, Bernard and Billingham, John et al in “Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life : NASA Contractor Report 114445 (“NASA CR |
1 |
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Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 207-208 (in Chapter 11) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
2 |
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Powers, Robert M in his “The Coattails of God: The Trip to the Stars” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52-54 (in Chapter 3) of the Warner paperback edition. |
3 |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Messages from the Stars” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106-107 (in Chapter 6) of the |
2 |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 147-148 (in Chapter 8) of the Wildwood House softcover edition, at pages 154-155 of the revised 1977 Penguin softcover edition entitled “Signs of Life”. |
2 |
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Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 59 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Hello, Out There”) of the |
1 |
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Sagan, Carl in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 209-210 (in Chapter 38) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “Direct Contact Among Galactic Civilizations by Relativistic Interstellar Spaceflight” Planetary and Space Science Volume 11 (1963), issue 11, pages 485-498. |
2 |
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Sagan, Carl in his “Cosmos“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 232-233 (in Chapter 8) of the Abacus softcover edition. |
2 |
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Shklovskii, Iosef Shmuelovich and Sagan, Carl in their “Intelligent Life in the Universe” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 445-447 (in Chapter 32) of the Picador softcover edition. |
3 |
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Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 139 (in Chapter 7) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition. |
1 |
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Stoneley, Jack and |
1 |
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Stoneley, Jack and |
7 |
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Sullivan, Walter in his “We Are Not Alone” (1964) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 236-237 (in Chapter 16) of the Signet paperback revised editions. |
2 |
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von Hoerner, Sebastian in “Interstellar Communication : A Collection of Reprints and Original Contributions” (1963) (edited by A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 155, 159 (in Chapter 14) of the W A Benjamin hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of Sebastian von Hoerner “The General Limits of Space Travel”, Science, Volume 137 (1962.0700), pages 18ff. |
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Webb, Stephen in his “Where is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65 (in Chapter 4), 253 (in the Notes and Further Reading) of the Copernicus hardback edition. |
2 |
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White, Michael in his “Life Out There” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 148-149 (in Chapter 8) of the Little, Brown & Co hardback edition. |
2 |
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Wolfe, John in “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : NASA Special Publication 419 (“NASA SP |
1 |
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Zubrin, Robert in his “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 204-207 (in Chapter 9) of the Tarcher Putnam hardback edition. |
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Other Material
Bussard, R. W, "Galactic Matter and Interstellar Flight" (1960) Astronautica Acta, Volume 6, pages 179-194.
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