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Life is the greatest of all mysteries. Did it begin from a chance event, one never to be repeated in time and space, or is life on Earth just one example of a universal phenomenon that evolves wherever conditions are right? Although science could never confirm that we are a one-off miracle, it could...
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Prometheus Books,
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| Publisher Address: | Amherst, New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Life is the greatest of all mysteries. Did it begin from a chance event, one never to be repeated in time and space, or is life on Earth just one example of a universal phenomenon that evolves wherever conditions are right? Although science could never confirm that we are a one-off miracle, it could confirm that we are part of a universal phenomenon, and this, for the last fifty years, has been the goal of astronomers who have attempted to discover life in remote regions of the universe by searching for intelligent signals from the stars. |
| Carrier Form: | 227 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227). |
| ISBN: |
9781616146689 (cloth) : 1616146680 (cloth) |
| Index Number: | QB54 |
| CLC: | Q693 |
| Call Number: | Q693/A827 |
| Contents: | Looking for universal life -- Big questions. No right frequency ; A very strange story ; The unity of SETI -- Facing the facts. New developments ; The BBC showed the way ; A limited principle ; A worrying situation ; The astronautical theory ; What's out there? ; Earth without humans ; Propulsion chauvinism ; Look out for robots ; Robots increase the colonization factor ; Better robots by natural selection? ; Only one certainty ; That something special ; How many? ; Why now? -- The life of aliens. Electronic brains ; No food for aliens ; Codes for life ; Making exotic life ; Here by chance ; |