Are We Alone?
by Gregg Easterbrook
Publisher: The Atlantic Monthly 1988
Description:
Scanning the universe to see if we have company has fallen out of favor among many scientists, but the true believers who continue to search raise diverting questions -- like why planets form where they do, and how life began, and where we might end up.
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