Laura Krantz -- "Is There Anybody Out There?"

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Wednesday, Nov 8, 2023  6:30pm - 7:30pm

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Laura Krantz will speak about and sign her new book, Is There Anybody Out There?: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life, from Amoebas to Aliens, on Wednesday, November 8th at 6:30pm, at Boulder Bookstore. This is a FREE kid's event, but registration is required. Register on Eventbrite.

About the Book:
Reports of strange lights, UFO sightings, and alien encounters abound—and some (like recent accounts from US Navy pilots) even sound credible. In recent years, armed with state-of-the-art technology and better information, the search for extraterrestrials overflows with exciting possibilities. Within our own solar system, astrobiologists search for the biochemical building blocks that might sustain microbes, astronomers discover far-flung stars, orbited by planets that could be teeming with life, and astrophysicists point sophisticated telescopes toward the deep reaches of the universe, looking for anything out of the ordinary.

Is There Anybody Out There? turns our collective gaze skyward: What’s the likelihood of life on other planets? Or that aliens have already made the trip to visit us? How would they get here? Why do we want to find them? And what does it mean if we do (or don’t)? Teaching readers to challenge their gut assumptions and open their minds to new possibilities by using critical thinking and the scientific method, journalist Laura Krantz investigates the science, culture, and philosophy of a universe in which we’re not alone—and why the idea of alien life has abducted our imaginations.

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