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Cloudy with a Chance of Starships : How the Drake Equation Reveals the Odds of Life in the Cosmos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rasmussen, Seven.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- An entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence Cloudy with a Chance of Starships takes readers on an irreverent expedition through the marvelous world of astrobiology, using as a guide the most important equation in science since E=mc2.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Stars and Their Planets
- The Big Bang
- The Origins of the (Light) Elements
- The Origins of the (Heavy) Elements
- Before the Beginning
- The Star Zoo
- A Plethora of Planets
- Imagination Meets Reality
- The Earth through Time
- 2. On Habitability
- Water and the Origins of Life
- Out with the Tides
- Walking on Eggshells
- Magnetic Personalities
- Lunar Impact
- Do Planets Sing in the Shower?
- It's a Beautiful Day in the Galaxy, and You Are a Horrible Star
- Our Galactic Habitat
- What's Left?
- 3. The Signature of Another Earth
- Life's Ingredients
- Amino Acids
- Proteins
- Which Came First, the Metabolic Chicken or the RNA Egg?
- But Does It Have Pockets?
- Tools in the Search for Life
- Biosignatures
- Life as We Don't Know It
- Earth: One in a Googol
- 4. Intelligence in the Mirror
- Technosignatures in the Solar System
- Technosignatures in the Stellar Neighborhood
- Stellar Beacons
- Megastructures and Beyond
- The Cosmic Mirror Revisited
- 5. The End of Civilization
- A History of Great Filters
- Climate Change and the Holocene Extinction
- The Nuclear Apocalypse and Other Challenges
- Artificial "Intelligence
- Gray Goo, Overpopulation, and the Great Unknown
- Escaping L
- Becoming Interstellar
- The End of the Drake Equation
- 6. Astrobiology's Frontiers
- The Universe and You
- Nuclear Astrophysics Today
- The Cake Is Alive: Of Space Rocks and Life
- Old Friends, New Planets
- Galaxies, Rabbits, and Puddles: The Chemical Origins of Life Near and Far
- Life, Uh, Finds a Way
- 7. Astrobiology's Tomorrow and Tomorrow's Astrobiologists
- Geology's Horizons
- Rocket Chemistry and the Materials of Tomorrow
- Biology: Unfolding the Future
- The Beginning of Wisdom, Not the End
- End Matter: Tomorrow's Astrobiologists.
- Resources for Marginalized Students and Scientists
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rasmussen, Seven Cloudy with a Chance of Starships
- ISBN:
- 9780691248752
- OCLC:
- 1592690531
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