num_pages: 268
description: Science that sounds like science fiction.In recent years scientists have hypothesized life-forms that can only be called weird: organisms that live off acid rather than water microbes that thrive at temperatures and pressure levels so extreme that their cellular structures should break down perhaps even organisms that reproduce without DNA. Some of these strange life-forms unrelated to all life we know might be nearby: on rock surfaces in the American southwest hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor or even in our own bodies. Some stranger still might live in Martian permafrost swim in the dark oceans of Jupiter's moons or survive in the exotic ices on comets. Others--the strangest of all--might inhabit the crusts of neutron stars interstellar nebulae or even other spatial dimensions. In Weird Life  David Toomey takes us on a breathtaking tour of a universe of hypothetical life a universe of life as we do not know it. 10 illustrations
language: English
title: Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company