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The privileged planet : how our place in the cosmos is designed for discovery
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The privileged planet : how our place in the cosmos is designed for discovery

Author: Guillermo Gonzalez; Jay Wesley Richards
Publisher: Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : National Book Network [distributor], ©2004.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Guillermo Gonzalez; Jay Wesley Richards
ISBN: 0895260654 9780895260659
OCLC Number: 54046478
Description: xv, 444 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents: Section 1: Our local environment -- Wonderful eclipses -- At home on a data recorder -- Peering down -- Peering up -- The pale blue dot in relief -- Our helpful neighbors -- Section 2: The broader universe -- Star probes -- Our galactic habitat -- Our place in cosmic time -- A universe fine-tuned for life and discovery -- Section 3: Implications -- The revisionist history of the Copernican revolution -- The Copernican principle -- The anthropic disclaimer -- SETI and the unraveling of the Copernican principle -- A universe designed for discovery -- The skeptical rejoinder.
Responsibility: Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards.
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