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    The Aliens Are Coming!

    Published by Little, Brown (Hachette UK) Audio

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    Discover the fascinating and cutting-edge science behind the greatest question of all: is there life beyond Earth?

    For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe. In the last few years, scientists have made huge strides towards answering that question. In The Aliens are Coming!, comedian and bestselling science writer Ben Miller takes us on a fantastic voyage of discovery, from the beginnings of life on earth to the very latest search for alien intelligence.

    What soon becomes clear is that the hunt for extra-terrestrials is also an exploration of what we actually mean by life. What do you need to kickstart life? How did the teeming energy of the Big Bang end up as frogs, trees and quantity surveyors? How can evolution provide clues about alien life? What might it look like? (Probably not green and sexy, sadly.)

    As our probes and manned missions venture out into the solar system, and our telescopes image Earth-like planets with ever-increasing accuracy, our search for alien life has never been more exciting – or better funded. The Aliens are Coming! is a comprehensive, accessible and hugely entertaining guide to that search, and our quest to understand the very nature of life itself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLittle, Brown (Hachette UK) Audio
    Release dateFeb 4, 2016
    ISBN9781405535243
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      A readable (in large part, but not all parts) account of some of the difficulties and parameters of the quest for extra terrestrial life. Interesting, and in the main, accessible, this could do with editing I felt at points and there was a lot of guff in places. Fundamentally this looked at and tried to explain not only the difficulties in detecting life but even communicating with it. I'd say this isn't for the general reader but for someone with some foreknowledge of science and the subject.