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jolierice99's review against another edition
4.0
This book is FASCINATING. It's very sciency but written in a way almost anyone can read without getting lost or caught up in all the crazy numbers and formulas. I've never see anything laid out so neatly before, stating that there is almost no catch we are alone in the universe and then pummeling me with facts and proof (in the best way) until I closed this book at the end 100% convinced there is life in our universe. SO COOL.
And it's real!! The science is all real!!
Now, if you asked me before reading this, I'd probably say I don't believe in aliens. But this book isn't about aliens. It's about life, and the universe conducting more than just one experiment (Earth and a technologically advanced civilization) and I feel so smart now I love it.
And it's real!! The science is all real!!
Now, if you asked me before reading this, I'd probably say I don't believe in aliens. But this book isn't about aliens. It's about life, and the universe conducting more than just one experiment (Earth and a technologically advanced civilization) and I feel so smart now I love it.
jeffmauch's review against another edition
3.0
This one started off very interesting and sort of petered out over the second half of the book. I think I mostly found the hard actual science in the beginning to the speculative and future possible science of the later portions of the book. The first portion of the book really found me thinking a lot of the Carl Sagan’s Contact, because it’s essentially dealing with the early approaches of searching for other life in the universe (Including the records Sagan was heavily involved with getting on the Voyager space probes.) Once the book started to delve into theory and odds of there being other intelligent live in the universe and the odds of contact etc, I lost interest rather quickly. It’s not that the book is poorly written or researched, it’s solid, it was just not all that interesting to me. I’m more for hard science here and while some of that was mixed in, such as the use of the Hubble Telescope to find other planets, it just wasn’t enough.
guarinous's review against another edition
3.0
An interesting take on climate change, using exo-planets and the possibility of alien civilizations to offer perspective on our own Earthly situation.
joeydragonfly's review against another edition
3.0
"We are not a plague on the planet. We ARE the planet."
alex2_0's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
4.0
Quite interesting and has great story telling.
iceeckos12's review against another edition
3.0
I think this book would be a good read for someone who's never studied astrobiology or astrophysics before. A lot of the information in the earlier chapters were a reiteration of things I already knew, and sometimes got a little caught up in the details. In my opinion the strongest chapters were 4 and 5, although I'm not sure if this is simply because I'm a big nerd about space. An interesting read.
shawnwhy's review against another edition
5.0
super fun look into a planet as a wold and how conversion of energy from stars can shape our civilization into ta cosmic one, goes into bottle necks that prevents civilizations from growing such as over socumption(eastern Island) etc. also goes into sagan and margulis and the gia theory quite abit. , the earth is a reactive system, and oxygen is created by the abundance of trees, there is a system to create variance that plays off of one dominant factor , trees - oryfgen, - animals - ...
oh yeah. by numbers, there should already be many other civilizations on other start , carbon and water are probably the most ideal elements for life due to the quality of its ions. and its verdsatility,
oh yeah. by numbers, there should already be many other civilizations on other start , carbon and water are probably the most ideal elements for life due to the quality of its ions. and its verdsatility,