The Exoplanets
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The Exoplanets

Is Homo Sapiens Alone in a Universe Teeming with Life?

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Exoplanets

Is Homo Sapiens Alone in a Universe Teeming with Life?

About this book

Where is ET and how does he look like? The fast rate of discovery of exoplanets is telling us that millions of planets in the universe are most probably teeming with life. But the extremely small probability that life, once born, evolves into homo sapiens tells us that ET is most probably just a bacterium. A possible answer to the Fermi paradox ('where is everybody?') is therefore: they are all out there, on millions of planets, but bacteria do not build spaceships. Homo sapiens is alone in a universe teeming with life.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright Information ©
  5. Acknowledgement
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Introduction: From Crystalline Spheres to Exoplanets
  8. 2. Darwin’s Idea
  9. 3. Life on Earth
  10. 4. The Improbable Homo Sapiens
  11. 5. The Universe
  12. 6. Extra-Terrestrial Life: The Solar System
  13. 7. Extra-Terrestrial Life: The Exoplanets
  14. Bibliography