Life as we do not know it
Subtitle: the NASA search for (and synthesis of) alien life
By: Peter D. Ward.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Life on other planets.; Life -- Origin.
Description: Presents an examination of the possibility of life that is alien to planet Earth, providing a discussion of the nature of life itself, its limits, what alien life might be like, and how it can be created artificially.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: What is life?; title: What is earth life?; title: Life as we do not know it; title: A recipe book of life; title: The artificial synthesis of life; title: Are there aliens already on earth?; title: Panspermia: why there may be aliens throughout the solar system; title: Mercury and Venus; title: Fossils on the moon; title: Mars; title: Europa; title: Titan; title: Implications, ethics, and dangers; title: A manifesto: send paleontologists to Mars and biochemists to Titan; title: A forest of life?