The Odds of Life and Intelligence

If we re-ran Earth's clock, would life arise again? Would another civilization eventually evolve? Astrobiology is faced with trying to contextualize our place in the Universe using just a single data point. But even a single data point contains information. The key to unlocking it is a careful...

28 min - Space & the Universe - Cool Worlds

Read Deeper: Life Beyond Earth

1. The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies - View on Amazon
2. Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb - View on Amazon
3. Rare Earth by Peter Douglas Ward - View on Amazon
4. Confessions of an Alien Hunter by G. Seth Shostak - View on Amazon
5. The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy by Arik Kershenbaum - View on Amazon
6. Alien Earths by Lisa Kaltenegger - View on Amazon
7. Cosmos by Carl Sagan (4.6/5) - View on Amazon
8. The Smallest Lights in the Universe by Sara Seager - View on Amazon
9. Strange New Worlds by Ray Jayawardhana - View on Amazon
10. The Planet Factory by Elizabeth Tasker - View on Amazon
11. Life in the Universe by Jeffrey O. Bennett - View on Amazon
12. Weird Life by David M. Toomey - View on Amazon
13. If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... Where Is Everybody? by Stephen Webb - View on Amazon
14. Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan (4.6/5) - View on Amazon

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