Five Billion Years of Solitude : The Search for Life among the Stars Hardcover - 2013
by Billings, Lee
- Used
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- Title Five Billion Years of Solitude : The Search for Life among the Stars
- Author Billings, Lee
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition International Ed
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 294
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, U.S.A.
- Date 2013-10-03
- Bookseller's Inventory # 5522737-75
- ISBN 9781617230066 / 1617230065
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Life on other planets, Extrasolar planets
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013017672
- Dewey Decimal Code 576.839
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Summary
Yet as the pace of discovery quickens, an answer to the universe’s greatest riddle still remains just out of reach: Is the great silence and emptiness of the cosmos a sign that we and our world are somehow singular, special, and profoundly alone, or does it just mean that we’re looking for life in all the wrong places? As star-gazing scientists come closer to learning the truth, their insights are proving ever more crucial to understanding life’s intricate mysteries and possibilities right here on Earth.
Science journalist Lee Billings explores the past and future of the exoplanet boom” through in-depth reporting and interviews with the astronomers and
FRANK DRAKE, a pioneer who has used the world’s greatest radio telescopes to conduct the first searches for extraterrestrial intelligence and to transmit a message to the stars so powerful that it briefly outshone our Sun.
SARA SEAGER, a visionary and iron-willed MIT professor who dreams of escaping the solar system and building the giant space telescopes required to discover and study life-bearing planets around hundreds of the Sun’s neighboring stars.
Through these and other captivating tales, Billings traces the triumphs, tragedies, and betrayals of the extraordinary men and women seeking life among the stars. In spite of insu cient funding, clashing opinions, and the failings of some of our world’s most prominent and powerful scientifi c organizations, these planet hunters will not rest until they fi nd the meaning of life in the infi nite depths of space. Billings emphasizes that the heroic quest for other Earth-like planets is not only a scientifi c pursuit, but also a refl ection of our own culture’s timeless hopes and fears.