Reviews for Faint Echoes, Distant Stars The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth

The average rating for Faint Echoes, Distant Stars The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-09-26 00:00:00 Paul Gill Not bad, just outdated.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-01-12 00:00:00 Anthony Kiedis Since publication, it has been discovered that Viking *did* find organics on Mars: Oops! Another correction: He says that 4 Hydrogen atoms fuse into one Helium. It's only 2. Editor should have caught that one! I did NOT enjoy reading about the following pseudo-scientific ABORTIONS: * UFOs, the Roswell crash site, etc. * Lowell and his canals on Mars * The ALH84001 Mars rock and imagined lifeforms therein I guess Ben Bova had nothing else to write about, so he included the bad science along with the good. Ugh. This is almost as bad as a similar (almost identical!) book by Paul Davies: