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Presents an examination of the possibility of life that is alien to planet Earth, providing a discussion of the nature of life itself, its limits, what alien life might be like, and how it can be created artificially.

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Viking
Language
English
Pages
298

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Subjects
Origin, Life, Life on other planets, Exobiologie, Vie, Vie extraterrestre, Astrobiologie, Origines, United states, national aeronautics and space administration, Exobiology

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Table of Contents

What is life?
What is earth life?
Life as we do not know it
A recipe book of life
The artificial synthesis of life
Are there aliens already on earth?
Panspermia: why there may be aliens throughout the solar system
Mercury and Venus
Fossils on the moon
Mars
Europa
Titan
Implications, ethics, and dangers
A manifesto: send paleontologists to Mars and biochemists to Titan
A forest of life?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
576.8/39
Library of Congress
QB54 .W335 2005

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Pagination
xxi, 298 p. :
Number of pages
298

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Open Library
OL22747809M
Internet Archive
lifeaswedonotkno00ward
ISBN 10
0670034584
LCCN
2005056299
OCLC/WorldCat
61757182
Library Thing
696007
Goodreads
1232392

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