Life Beyond Earth: The Intelligent Earthling’s Guide to Life in the Universe
Gerald Feinberg
464 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0688036422
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1980
Preface
List of Figures
List of Plates
Credits
Authors’ Note About Units & Notation
Life in the universe
Earthlife
The architecture of life; Fable 1; Earth’s biosphere and what it eats; How Earthlife evolved; Fable 2; The origin of Earthlife: an unsolved problem
Life
What is life?; Conditions for life
Life beyond Earth
Chemical life; Mars; Fable 3; Life on small, cool objects; Homes for life: the outside universe; Physical life; The creatures of elsewhere; A universe full of life & how to find it; The levels of COSMEL
References
Index