FOXNews.com: Travel publisher reveals where to find aliens

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Travel publisher reveals where to find aliens Apr 3rd 2012, 14:36 Is there anyone out there? A popular publisher of travel guidebooks looks to answer just that question. Forget Barcelona, Thailand, and African safaris. Your next destination? Mars, the cosmos, and beyond. The Search for Aliens: A Rough Guide to Life on Other Worlds is perhaps the last thing you would expect from a company that specializes in travel guides but the book, written by highly acclaimed popular science writer Piers Bizony, is a scientific journey into a fundamental question: Are we alone? Put it another way, do aliens exist? Of course, the guide provides no concrete answers, instead providing a more practical premise: that we may be closer than ever to finding out. Structured like a typical travel guide, the book provides the educational building blocks first for even beginning to tackle the problem: providing a brief history of the search for extraterrestrials, and understanding what "life" actually is from a scientific perspective. It then looks to examine our modern day strategy for locating the unknown: the latest research projects, cool radio technologies, and the theoretical research that drives everything forward. The guide also touches upon peripheral ideas about aliens and life, such as the concept of Panspermia: did comets and asteroids bring life to earth in the first place? While you won't be able to spelunk from location to location to see first hand many of the places and people described -- it's not an actual travel guide -- the book does provide a great scientific overview on a subject often riddled with legend, myth, and even misinformation. Bizony as a guide is friendly but informative. A long time science writer, he has won NASA's Eugene Emme Ward award for Astronautical writing for his book chronicling the Mars Viking hunt for life int he 1970s, The Rivers of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life.

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