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Frank, Adam, 1962-
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Cosmology.
Human ecology.
Exobiology.
Earth (Planet)
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Frank, Adam, 1962-
Cosmology.
Human ecology.
Exobiology.
Earth (Planet)
MARC Display
Light
of the
stars
:
alien
worlds
and the
fate
of the
Earth
/ Adam Frank.
by
Frank, Adam, 1962-
W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Call #:
523.1 F828L
Subjects
Cosmology.
Human ecology.
Exobiology.
Earth
(Planet)
ISBN:
9780393609011
Alternate title:
Alien
worlds
and the
fate
of the
Earth
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
vii, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The project and the planet -- The
alien
equation -- What the robot ambassadors say -- The masks of
Earth
--
Worlds
beyond measure -- The final factor -- The awakened
worlds
.
Summary:
"
Light
of the
Stars
tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other
worlds
and their sudden relevance to our
fate
on
Earth
. Astrophysicist Adam Frank traces the question of
alien
life and intelligence from the ancient Greeks to the leading thinkers of our own time, and shows how we as a civilization can only hope to survive climate change if we recognize what science has recently discovered: that we are just one of ten billion trillion planets in the Universe, and it's highly likely that many of those planets hosted technologically advanced
alien
civilizations. What's more, each of those civilizations must have faced the same challenge of civilization-driven climate change. Written with great clarity and conviction,
Light
of the
Stars
builds on the inspiring work of pioneering scientists such as Frank Drake and Carl Sagan, whose work at the dawn of the space age began building the new science of astrobiology; Jack James, the Texas-born engineer who drove NASA's first planetary missions to success; Vladimir Vernadsky, the Russian geochemist who first envisioned the
Earth
's biosphere; and James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, who invented Gaia theory. Frank recounts the perilous journey NASA undertook across millions of miles of deep space to get its probes to Venus and Mars, yielding our first view of the cosmic laws of planets and climate that changed our understanding of our place in the universe."--Jacket.
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