Life Beyond Earth
by Gerald Feinberg · first published 1980
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Along these same lines, the book Life Beyond Earth: The Intelligent Earthling's Guide to Life in the Universe by Gerald Feinberg and Robert Shapiro suggests some ways life, broadly defined, could exist.
on “Search for ET life as we don’t know it” ↗We don't have any current examples, no, but Gerald Feinberg and Robert Shapiro's book _Life Beyond Earth_[1], though published in 1980, gives a variety of provocative suggestions about what life other than earthlife might look like, and how we could detect it. [1] https://cmdev.com/isbn/0688036422
on “Mars Rover Finds Stronger Potential for Life” ↗There's a great book about this called "Life Beyond Earth" by Gerald Feinberg and Robert Shapiro. It discusses possibilities ranging from silicon-based life to plasma-based and even radiation-based life. It's not speculative, but since it's rather old the science…
on “A deep-sea fisherman in Russia has been posting his finds on Twitter” ↗Life Beyond Earth by Feinberg & Shapiro. A really interesting examination of what alien life might look like, where and how it could arise. Explores fascinating concepts like life inside of a sun. Made me feel like alien…
on “Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?” ↗…exist within that tiny distance, and our signals are likely distorted and attenuated to the point of being indistinguishable from background noise for most of them. The book I like to recommend is titled Life Beyond Earth: The Intelligent Earthling’s Guide to Life in the Universe by Gerald and Feinberg and Robert Shapiro and published in 1980. It speculates on what forms life could take and how we might know something…
on “A Single Fire Killed at Least 10% of the World's Giant Sequoias, Study Says” ↗This kind of aligns with the ideas presented in the 1980 book Life beyond Earth : the intelligent Earthling's guide to life in the universe. A major part of the thesis the authors (Gerald Feinberg and Robert Shapiro) present is that "life" can be identified not only by the biological…
on “Anil Seth Finds Consciousness in Life’s Push Against Entropy” ↗Contrary to the narratives you’ll find elsewhere, including in Loeb’s new book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Life Beyond Earth, this is not a possibility worth taking seriously as a scientist. A straightforward look at the evidence shows us why." -> "Loeb offers only loud, immodest speculation about aliens and diatribes about…
on “The Uncensored Guide to ‘Oumuamua, Aliens, and That Harvard Astronomer” ↗