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It's been nearly four decades since Carl Sagan first addressed the general public from a scientist's perspective, confronting the possibility of extraterrestrial life. David Grinspoon, a planetary scientist who has helped to shape modern planetar

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Title of ebook: Lonely Planets
ISBN: 9780061548970
parent-ISBN: 9780060959968
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Internet download file size: 2928 kb
Pages: 480
Published: 11-2007
Released online for download: 11-01-2007
Author of eBook: Grinspoon, David

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The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life

Chapter One

Spirits from the Vasty Deep

We have all felt this impulse in our childhood as our ancestors did before us, when they conjured goblins and spirits from the vasty void, and if our energy continue we never cease to feel its force through life. We but exchange, as our years increase, the romance of fiction for the more thrilling romance of fact.
-- Percival Lowell

I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Why, so can I, or so can any man, but will they come when you do call for them?
—Shakespeare, Henry IV

Prologue: Bruised by An Alien

It was a dark and stormy night -- and already a weird one. My friend Damon and I trudged around through a snowstorm in the Meatpacking District, hunting for a spoken-word/hip-hop/acid-jazz event someone had said we had to see, while the wind whipped the streets into soft, majestic canyons. We were ants lost in a liquid-filled snowy Manhattan, and somebody up there was giving it a good shake. After hours of increasingly blind and frozen searching, we ducked into a corner bar where a jazz quartet was only slightly mangling Coltrane's "Out of This World" and ... read full excerpt from Lonely Planets ebook

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