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The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World
The Life and Death of Planet Earth How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World
Author: Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee
Planet Earth is middle-aged. Science has worked hard to piece together the story of the evolution of our world up to this point, but only recently have we developed the understanding and the tools to describe the entire life cycle of a planet-of our planet. Peter Ward and Don Brownlee, a geologist and an astronomer respectively, are in the vangu...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805067811
ISBN-10: 0805067817
Publication Date: 1/13/2003
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Times Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Kind of puts perspective on my IRS audit.
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I read it to the bitter end, which, depending on your viewpoint, is either the oceans evaporating or the red giant stage of the sun. It's a depressing read, although logically, I'm not sure why. They use the bell curve model to describe the habitabilityand diversity of the earth, and they claim we are on the way down now. These guys don't put much stock in our descendents hopping from habitable planet to habitable planet to escape our demise.


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