Pay no attention to the negative comments on Goodreads. I have to wonder if those reviewers read the same book I did (or read it at all).
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Is Anyone Listening? What Animals Are Saying to Each Other and to Us
I debated about whether or not to write a review since I didn't finish this book (I did read half the book). But I thought it be prudent for the casual reader to know my impressions of it before they pick it up. In short, it was quite interesting, but…
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Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence
"You know, I can understand nine words in that book now." - Billy Madison
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The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System
Another pick for the Planetary Society book club. And what an amazing pick this was! Who knew that a journey to a lifeless rock somewhere between Mars and Jupiter would be interesting?! This author understood the assignment!
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The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet
Would you like to go to Mars? I know I would. But would you want to immigrate there? If so, this book is chock-full of information on how to get there, how to live there, how to work there, how to start slavery there, how our world kind of sucks,…
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
I hope we're not alone in the universe. When I look up at the stars, I like to imagine that there is life orbiting quite a lot of them. Like in Star Trek. Which is referenced heavily throughout this book. And you know what? I'm here for it!
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Space Shuttle Stories
Another pick of The Planetary Society Book Club - this for April 2024. As the cover states, this book features firsthand astronaut accounts from all 135 missions. It's loaded with photos too!
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Moon Rush: The New Space Race
We landed on the Moon! Like, today - as I write this! Intuitive Machines, a US-based company, successfully landed the Odysseus lander on the Moon. This is the first private company to land on the Moon and the first US landing on the Moon in over 50 years! That may…
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The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts
My first book of 2024! I picked this one up shortly after joining The Planetary Society and finding out they do a monthly book club. As the title suggests, it’s about the first six women selected by NASA for the Space Shuttle program. How does one not spoil a work…