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Ward, Peter: Rare Earth

May 18, 2006 16:41

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blog: reviews, peter ward, donald brownlee, nonfiction: science, ratings: worth reading with reservations,

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I Interviewed Peter Ward digitalred93 May 18 2006, 22:38:43 UTC

Years ago - when the book first came out:

http://www.destinationspace.net/frontier/rareearth.asp

Have you read Dead Mars, Dying Earth?

Re: I Interviewed Peter Ward calico_reaction May 18 2006, 22:45:00 UTC

Cool! Thanks for the link!

And no, I haven't. This is the first thing I've read by him. :)

Dead Mars, Dying Earth digitalred93 May 18 2006, 23:05:30 UTC

They didn't write it. Monica Rix Paxson and Dr. John Brandenburg (of the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) -- they're the guys who did the research and data collection on the Cydonia Face on Mars: Dr. Mark Carlotto, etc). Plus John is a quantum physicist with a subcontractor with NASA, working on a quantum drive. He was my physics consultant for my book.

You can read up on them over at:
http://destinationspace.net/dmdebio.asp
There's an audio interview over there, too.

zhai May 19 2006, 03:32:56 UTC

Yeah. That book is very good -- I've read parts of it and want to read more -- for specific cool details, but astrobiology theory and even just astrophysical theory about generating conditions for creating planets seems to expand and collapse constantly, so many times even within the same year that I don't know what the most up-to-date theory is, and that's just from a public perspective. Several times since the book came out the scientific community has flipped back and forth (wait! it isn't actually that uncommon! because...! -- then six months later -- wait, never mind, life really is really uncommon, we forgot about X...). I *think* that the current status of things just went through another 'expansion' phase where they think our type of solar system isn't as uncommon as previously thought, and also there was something recently about life being possible around a red dwarf, which hugely expands things again...