Over the past two decades there has developed an increasingly serious debate about the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life. More recently, there have been significant deliberations about ways in which […]
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Carl Sagan – Galileo Interdisciplinary Scientist (1934 – 1996)
Carl Sagan passed away on December 20, 1996 of pneumonia after a two-year battle with bone marrow disease. He was 62, and will be sorely missed by his friends and […]
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Exobiology In Earth Orbit
NASA SP-500January 1989The results of science workshops held at NASA Ames Research Center
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Hearing: Possibility Of Intelligent Life Elsewhere In The Universe [1977 Revision]
Prepared for the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, by the Science Policy research Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. Full text […]
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Book: Intelligent Life In The Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan
This book, first published in 1966, is a product of a unique international collaboration between a world famous Russian astronomer and a leading American space scientist, the first popular and […]
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Biology And The Exploration Of Mars
PREFACE Until recent years the origin of life and its possible occurrence elsewhere in the universe have been matters for speculation only. The rapid growth of molecular biology since 1940 […]
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Life Its Nature, Origin And Development – A. I. Oparin
Oparin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich), 1894-1980.