What Does a Martian Look Like

2003-02-03 Science

Author : Jack Cohen
Release : 2003-02-03
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 080/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book What Does a Martian Look Like written by Jack Cohen. This book was released on 2003-02-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating and useful handbook to both the science and science fiction of extraterrestrial life. Cohen and Stewart are amusing, opinionated, and expert guides. I found it a terrific and informative piece of work-nothing else like it!" -Greg Bear "I loved it." -Larry Niven "Ever wonder about what aliens could be like? The world authority is Jack Cohen, a professional biologist who has thought long and hard about the vast realm of possibilities. This is an engaging, swiftly moving study of alien biology, a subject with bounds and constraints these authors plumb with verve and intelligence." -Gregory Benford "A celebration of life off Earth. A hearteningly optimistic book, giving a much-needed antidote to the pessimism of astrobiologists who maintain that we are alone in the universe-a stance based on a very narrow view of what could constitute life. A triumph of speculative nonfiction." -Dougal Dixon, author of After Man: A Zoology of the Future

What Does a Martian Look Like?

2007-08-17 Science

Author : Jack Cohen
Release : 2007-08-17
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 405/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book What Does a Martian Look Like? written by Jack Cohen. This book was released on 2007-08-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating and useful handbook to both the science and science fiction of extraterrestrial life. Cohen and Stewart are amusing, opinionated, and expert guides. I found it a terrific and informative piece of work-nothing else like it!" -Greg Bear "I loved it." -Larry Niven "Ever wonder about what aliens could be like? The world authority is Jack Cohen, a professional biologist who has thought long and hard about the vast realm of possibilities. This is an engaging, swiftly moving study of alien biology, a subject with bounds and constraints these authors plumb with verve and intelligence." -Gregory Benford "A celebration of life off Earth. A hearteningly optimistic book, giving a much-needed antidote to the pessimism of astrobiologists who maintain that we are alone in the universe-a stance based on a very narrow view of what could constitute life. A triumph of speculative nonfiction." -Dougal Dixon, author of After Man: A Zoology of the Future

Evolving the Alien

2002 Exobiology

Author : Jack Cohen
Release : 2002
Genre : Exobiology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 273/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Evolving the Alien written by Jack Cohen. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would life on other planets look like? Forget the little green men, alien life is likely to be completely unrecognisable -we haven't even discovered all the life on our own planet. This visionary book offers some of the most radical but scientifically accurate thinking on the possibility of life on other planets ever conceived. Using broad principles of Earthly biology and expanding on them laterally, Cohen and Stewart examine what could be out there. Redefining our whole concept of what 'life' is, they ask whether aliens could live on the surface of a star, in the vacuum of space or beneath the ice of a frozen moon. And whether life could exist without carbon or DNA -or even without matter at all. They also look at 'celebrity aliens' from books and films -most of which are biologically impossible. Jack Cohen is an 'alien consultant' to many writers, advising what an alien could and couldn't look like. (E. T. go home -you do not pass the test). But this book is as much about the latest discoveries in Earthly biology as well as life on other planets. It's a serious yet entertaining science book, as you'd expect from the bestselling authors of THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD.

Mars as the Abode of Life

1910 Cosmogony

Author : Percival Lowell
Release : 1910
Genre : Cosmogony
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Download or read book Mars as the Abode of Life written by Percival Lowell. This book was released on 1910. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What Does a Martian Look Like?

2004 Life on other planets

Author : Jack Sidney Cohen
Release : 2004
Genre : Life on other planets
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Book Rating : 165/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book What Does a Martian Look Like? written by Jack Sidney Cohen. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books about alien life are by astrophysicists, and spend their time arguing whether other planets and solar systems are habitable. This one is different. The authors point out that aqueous planets are common and where water exists life is likely. The test here is to find those features of life and evolution that are universal, and then to work out how they might have operated to produce life in other worlds. Along the way, the authors use examples of the aliens on offer via films, books and TV. Many have entirely reasonable biologies, others- cuddlies like ET, or dragons like the Alien- fail to measure up to the tests the authors set, but help narrow the search for the 'scientific alien'. The authors conclude that humans are not alone as intelligent entities, and that many others have appeared, and will appear, on other planets. And now, they argue, we can even surmise what they will look like and why.

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