Taxi From Another Planet - Conversations With Drivers About Life in the Universe

Taxi drivers love to talk, and when astrobiologist Charles Cockell is their passenger, they love to talk about aliens. This humorous, insightful collection gathers essays inspired by conversations with cabbies, ranging over the possible nature of alien societies, the inevitability of life, and links between environmentalism and space exploration.

About the author

Charles Cockell is Professor of Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh, where he founded the UK Centre for Astrobiology. He formerly worked at NASA, the British Antarctic Survey, and the Open University. He has studied microbial life in many of Earth's extreme environments and published a variety of popular and academic books about life in the universe and the exploration of space.

Summary

Taxi drivers love to talk, and when astrobiologist Charles Cockell is their passenger, they love to talk about aliens. This humorous, insightful collection gathers essays inspired by conversations with cabbies, ranging over the possible nature of alien societies, the inevitability of life, and links between environmentalism and space exploration.

Product details

• Authors: Charles S. Cockell
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2025
• EAN: 9780674297227
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29722-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Aviation and space engineering; popular science, Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Essays, SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, Biology, life sciences, Space Science, Astronomy, space & time, SCIENCE / Space Science / General, Astronomy, space and time, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy