Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars
Lee Billings
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“I have lost tolerance for things without meaning. There is no time for them. Does that make sense? - Sara Seager”
“it seemed possible that, given a few centuries’ time, we might not even recognize whatever our descendants had become.”
“if humans themselves weren’t destined to inherit the Earth, they would certainly author whatever ultimately would.”
“frustratingly vague and tautological: the Gaia hypothesis suggested that for a planet to be habitable, it must first be inhabited.”
“We took turns gazing at Venus's imperceptibly creeping black circle & clusters of nearby sunspots. Few words were said. The silence deepened with the acceptance that each gaze brought the experience closer to an end, & that in all our lives we would never see such a sight again.”
“This book’s title, Five Billion Years of Solitude, refers to the longevity of life on Earth.”
“The real story here is the amazing plausibility of detecting them at all, the fact that from our perch upon this speck of dust, we have come to the point where we are on the threshold of these sorts of discoveries.”
“Ten, twenty years from now, just finding an Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star probably won’t be a big deal, either. Historians may look back and shake their heads at this period, when astronomers were regularly claiming to have found the ‘first habitable planet,”
“People don’t support what they think is best for all of science, they support what directly benefits them.”
“It did not stand to reason, Lucretius wrote, that “this was the only world and heavens created, and that beyond it those many bodies of matter do nothing at all.”
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