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title: "Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique"
brand: "john gribbin"
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# Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique

**Brand:** john gribbin
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- **What is this?** Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique by john gribbin
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Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique

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## Customer Reviews

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    Interesting and Informative
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2017*

As always, John Gribbin has written an interesting and informative.  This book is more than speculation.  Gribbin shows the many factors that led to the rise  intelligent life and humankind.  If the universe is teeming with life, then it's nice to know that we're not alone and that we live in a universe in which life is not a fluke.  But if we are alone, then that really does make us special and gives us greater responsibility to cherish and preserve life.The book is not actually properly titled.  Gribbin does not claim that we are alone in the universe.  The universe could be infinite, or at least far larger than we can imagine.  If such is the case, then intelligent life is likely to exist somewhere out there.  Gribbin pretty much claims that we are alone in our galaxy.  I hope he's wrong (unless those aliens are something like the Borg), but it's still an interesting read.

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    A Compelling Research Story
  

*by C***A on Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2018*

This book lays down a sequence of facts that explains why no evidence exits to show that other intelligent exits in our galaxy, or likely exits elsewhere.

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    You will never think about the Earth in the same way again
  

*by D***H on Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2015*

One of the best books I've ever read.  So good, in fact, that I read several more times.  It shook my understanding of humans' place in the universe.  I only wish I could find more on this topic. While strictly a science book, the implication from the book's conclusion can be viewed as theological.  I am surprised more has not been written about John Gribben's view of the likelihood of intelligent life in the universe or how very unique our planet is.  I accepted Gribbin's position concerning the rarity of intelligent life in the universe because his argument was beautifully constructed and based on science, but I wonder how conventional it is within the mainstream astro-biology community?

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