Light of the Stars

Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

Recommended by Sean Lahman, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #89 in Astronomy

Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity’s coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance to our fate on Earth. Astrophysicist Adam Frank traces the question of alien life and intelligence from the ancient Greeks to the leading thinkers of our own time, and shows how we as a civilization can only hope to survive climate change if we recognize what science has recently discovered: that we are just one of ten billion trillion planets in the Universe, and it’s highly likely that many of those planets hosted technologically... more

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Sean Lahman This was an absolutely fascinating book. https://t.co/fuSXiwhNAC (Source)


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