
Imagined Life
A Speculative Scientific Journey among the Exoplanets in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Creatures, and Supergravity Animals
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Paul Boehmer
The captivating possibilities of extraterrestrial life on exoplanets, based on current scientific knowledge of existing worlds and forms of life
It is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring listeners on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life-unlike anything we have experienced so far - that could exist on planets outside our own solar system.
Life could be out there in many forms: on frozen worlds, living in liquid oceans beneath ice and communicating (and even battling) with bubbles; on super-dense planets, where they would have evolved body types capable of dealing with extreme gravity; on tidally locked planets with one side turned eternally toward a star; and even on "rogue worlds," which have no star at all. Yet this is no fictional flight of fancy: The authors take what we know about exoplanets and life on our own world and use that data to hypothesize about how, where, and which sorts of life might develop. Imagined Life is a must-have for anyone wanting to learn how the realities of our universe may turn out to be far stranger than fiction.
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good book on alien life based on basic science
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I recommend if you purchase it, to listen more than once. The Authors MS & JT admit that they have stretched the limits of possibilities but that just makes it more interesting. The other part of the story that I appreciated was the discussions on all the scientific spacecraft that is in orbit and will be in orbit that help us understand the universe. The Hubble, TESS, Kepler and the JWTS. As of the writing all but the James Web had been placed. Thier descriptions of its orbit and function is now a fact as it orbits the Lagrange (L2) about 1,000,000 miles from the Earth. I hope you enjoy this audio as much as I do, so buckle up for a trip down the galactic rabbit hole!
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