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100			_aRoush, Wade
245	1	0	_aExtraterrestrials _cby Wade Roush
260			_aLondon : _bMIT Press, _c©2020
300			_axvi, 221 p. ; _c18 cm.
490			_aThe MIT Press essential knowledge series.
504			_aThis book includes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_t1. Alien dreams _t2. Making SETI into science _t3. Extremophiles and exoplanets _t4. Answering Fermi _t5. Joining the conversation
520			_a"In this EK title Roush investigates a topic that has fascinated him since college -- the possibility and probability of life, intelligent or otherwise, in the universe. The book covers the history and science of our search for extraterrestrial life, and investigates what that search means for us as a species, as well as what the implications of finding life on other planets might mean for life on Earth. The book covers various iterations of SETI, or the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, both in listening for messages from space as well as sending them. Roush also covers more recent efforts to find exoplanets, worlds similar enough to our own to possibly harbor life in even very basic forms. Some of this research is driven by discoveries of 'extremophile' life here on Earth in places and conditions previously considered to be unconducive to life forms. Roush co-taught a course on this topic last year at MIT"--
650		0	_aLife on other planets.
650		0	_aExtraterrestrial beings.
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