EAN: 9783319529103

ASTRONOMERS UNIVERSE THE NATURE OF LIFE AND I...

This book looks at the persistence of life and how difficult it would be to annihilate life 
especially a species as successful as humanity. The idea that life in general is fragile is
challenged by the hardiness of microbes  which shows that astrobiology on exoplanets and other
satellites must be robust and plentiful. Microbes have adapted to virtually every niche on the
planet  from the deep  hot biosphere  to the frigid heights of the upper troposphere. Life  it
seems  is almost indestructible. The chapters in this work examine the various scenarios that
might lead to the extermination of life  and why they will almost always fail. Life's highly
adaptive nature ensures that it will cling on no matter how difficult the circumstances.
Scientists are increasingly probing and questioning life's true limits in  on and above the
Earth  and how these limits could be pushed elsewhere in the universe. This investigation puts
life in its true astronomical context  with the reader taken on a journey to illustrate life's
potential and perseverance.

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