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The Nature of Life and Its Potential to Survive (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Nature of Life and Its Potential to Survive (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Astronomers' Universe
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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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