https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/d42a1d9d8c1789a677eca1ccea4e4ab7.jpg 4260afc722eab3fe8cea620515068bb5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Leven Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 684832941 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LEV0230 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Michael D. Lemonick Title A name given to the resource Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Simon & Schuster Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 14 May, 1998 Description An account of the resource The first planet around a sunlike star was finally detected in 1995, after decades of false alarms. It was inevitable that within a couple of years a flood of books on extrasolar planets would gush forth. Michael Lemonick is the senior science writer at <em>Time</em> magazine, and his account is the most readable and vivid yet. He has a fluid, anecdotal style, with a good ear for the sort of simile that really speaks to the average reader, as when he describes hooking up a radio telescope being like "setting up a new computer yourself. Sometimes it just plain doesn't work, and you can't for the life of you figure out why." <p> Lemonick structures <em>Other Worlds</em> around Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler, whose Extrasolar Planet Search Project at the University of California, San Francisco, is the most successful program so far, with six planet discoveries to its credit by the end of 1998. Lemonick's other touchstone is the Drake Equation, which he hyperbolically calls "the second most important equation of the century." If we could fit in values for the seven terms in this equation, we could say something sensible about the number of civilizations in the galaxy. So far, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has not come up with any actual data, but, as one researcher says, it's "the world's biggest carrot," and worth enduring a considerable number of sticks.</p> Language A language of the resource nothing Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Hardcover