Extraterrestrials (MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series) - Wade Roush
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Narrator: Rick Adamson
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Are we alone in the universe? If not, where is everybody? An engaging exploration of one of the most important unsolved problems in science., Everything we know about how planets form and how life arises suggests that human civilization on Earth should not be unique. We ought to see abundant evidence of extraterrestrial activitybut we dont. Where is everybody? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, science and technology writer Wade Roush examines one of the great unsolved problems in science: is there life, intelligent or otherwise, on other planets?, This paradox (theyre bound to be out there; but where are they?), first formulated by the famed physicist Enrico Fermi, has fueled decades of debate, speculation, and, lately, some actual science. Roush lays out the problem in its historical and modern-day context and summarizes the latest thinking among astronomers and astrobiologists. He describes the long history of speculation about aliens (weve been debating the
