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Description of  Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe

Insightful, good-humored essays on the possibilities of alien life and the uses of space exploration, based on an astrobiologists everyday conversations with his fellow humanstaxi drivers, to be precise. If youve ever sat in the back seat of a taxi, you know that cabbies like to talk. Sports or politics, your job or theirs, taxi drivers are fine conversationalists on just about any topic. And when the passenger is astrobiologist Charles Cockell, that topic is usually space and what, if anything, lives out there. Inspired by conversations with drivers all over the world, Read more