Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe Cockell Charles S.
Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe Cockell Charles S. Insightful, good-humored essays on the possibilities of alien life and the uses of space…
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Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe Cockell Charles S.
Insightful, good-humored essays on the possibilities of alien life and the uses of space exploration, based on an astrobiologist's everyday conversations with his fellow humans--taxi drivers, to be precise.If you've ever sat in the back seat of a taxi, you know that cabbies like to talk. And when the passenger is astrobiologist Charles Cockell, that topic is usually space and what, if anything, lives out there.Inspired by conversations with drivers all over the world, Taxi from Another Planet tackles the questions that everyday people have about the cosmos and our place in it. Sports or politics, your job or theirs, taxi drivers are fine conversationalists on just about any topic.
What if there isn't life out in the universe? Will we understand aliens? Is Mars our Plan B?
And why is the government spending tax dollars on space programs anyway? Each essay in