Taxi from another planet: conversations with drivers about life in the universe
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Harvard University Press
Publication Date:
2022
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English
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"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"--
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9780674271838
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"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"--
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Evolution -- Public opinion
Extraterrestrial beings -- Public opinion
Life -- Public opinion
Taxicab drivers -- Attitudes
Extraterrestrial beings -- Public opinion
Life -- Public opinion
Taxicab drivers -- Attitudes
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Taxi from another planet : conversations with drivers about life in the universe
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Taxi from another planet : conversations with drivers about life in the universe / Charles S. Cockell
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Taxi from another planet
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conversations with drivers about life in the universe
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Evolution
Extraterrestrial beings
Life
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Evolution
Extraterrestrial beings
Life
Public opinion
Taxicab drivers
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