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A mystery explored in depth reveals the possibility of an alien flyby.
 
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ben_r47 | Hi ha 14 ressenyes més | Feb 22, 2024 |
Very interesting points that really make you think.
I wish the future holds the answers, that the author is proven right and that I live to see it.
 
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Tom.Morrison | Hi ha 14 ressenyes més | Nov 1, 2023 |
A particular quote stood out to me in Avi Loeb's book, "Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars." To win their trust, we'll be wise to invoke the spirit of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, who once remarked: "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says 'science teaches such and such,' he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn't teach it. Experience teaches it." That's what we must share with the public, worldwide—our search for observed experience." In my passion for science-related endeavors, I have stated nearly the same thing to people who talk about Science as if it were a person or entity and that "Science" does this or that. I felt this was a particularly great quote for Loeb to put into the book and is the perfect foundation for how to look at what Science is.

In a religious service, the Rabbi Emeritus, Rob Dobrusin had a sermon and spoke about the book, and one of his quotes also resonated with me. Religious institutions often refused to entertain the belief in other life forms in the Universe. Dobrusin said, "there is nothing in traditional Jewish faith that would in any way be threatened by assuming or even proving the presence of intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe. Perhaps some of our texts even presuppose this reality." I am so happy that Loeb brought this up in his book. It is another argument people have against alien life forms, and I appreciate this mention in the book.

Loeb also gives you much to think about what finding alien life would do for us. It would have us asking questions that we've all thought about, to questions, at least, I hadn't thought about yet. He explains why we might not have seen alien life yet to answer that age-old question about whether alien life exists.

I'm not good at math, even if I did get As in college, so when I saw equations (like the Drake Equation), I had to stop and consider them more because I had to understand them before I moved on. I don't believe math being mentioned in this book to be a bad thing; quite the contrary. Mentioning math is something that humanity needs only proves how important math is to teach our youngsters.

Loeb's enthusiasm and passion for this subject are evident in everything he says in this book. There is a lot of information put forth in the book, as well as a lot of resources mentioned that you can look up on your own. Yes, there was a lot of opinion in there, but who doesn't have opinions? When you feel passionate about something, you write to convince others that it's a worthy subject to study, or in this case, worth enough to be funded the way other invisible science endeavors are pursued. When you want to get people on board, you speak your mind, which Loeb does effectively.

Another great point made is about how we must learn to thrive without reliance on the Sun. Most realize the sun is going to die on us, but few people state how important it is that we learn to thrive without it and the need for interstellar space travel.

Loeb's ideas of space travel are a mixture of common sense and an enlightened view of what our space neighbors would be like. Loeb makes you want to board any spaceship you can find and sparks an interest in making friends of our space friends. Loeb makes the case that whether or not you believe in any other life in the universe, it is still important to search and important to progress to the point where we could leave this planet and survive in space or on another planet. he is effective at pointing out the reasons why it's so important to put more money into these searches. From equipment to ships, we have a lot of work to do.

This is my first book of Loeb's and after reading this one, it won't be my last. I read the other book reviews and if so many others think his other book is even better, then I cannot wait to read it. If you are inquisitive as to the evidence there is, reasons for spending more money looking, and the eventuality of humanity having to survive on other planets, then this is the book for you. I always believed there was life out there and even assumed that their civilization must be more advanced than ours. This is a must-read!
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