RE: A _Rare Earth_ review (was: Scientific American article on GHZ)

From: Don Klemencic (klemencc@sgi.net)
Date: Sun Oct 28 2001 - 14:59:30 MST


Thanks for the interesting references, Amara.

Don Klemencic

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> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Amara Graps
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> Subject: A _Rare Earth_ review (was: Scientific American article on GHZ)
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> From: Don Klemencic (klemencc@sgi.net), Tue Oct 09 2001
>
> >For anybody who missed the connection, Donald Brownlee and Peter
> D. Ward are
> >the authors of the book, Rare Earth, previously discussed on
> this list.
> ...

> You might be interested to know that some (or many) astronomers are
> treating the Rare Earth book with a fair bit of criticism.
>
> The following, attached review I saved from sci.astro 1 1/2 years ago.
> I haven't finished reading the book yet, but I agree (so far) with
> Joseph Lazio's comments below.
> ...
>
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