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taetris's review
2.0
This little non-fiction book makes the case for the theory that life arrived on earth through comets carrying the biological building blocks of life. It also posits that there must be other forms of intelligent life in the universe.
I had a hard time with it for two reasons:
- There was a lot of biology, chemistry and a little bit of astronomy, which, while I could probably have understood by taking the time to look at it properly, is something I tend to skim over without getting anything out of it.
- The book felt incredibly dated. Science has come a long way since this it was published, and alone the fact that Pluto was named as a planet and declared an enigma and that Jupiter and Saturn were declared to have much less moons than they have made it feel like some of the scientific stuff was outdated.
The colonisation of Aborigines and Red Indian (yes, those terms are used) was compared to predator-prey relationships in evolution and just felt really out of place.
I had a hard time with it for two reasons:
- There was a lot of biology, chemistry and a little bit of astronomy, which, while I could probably have understood by taking the time to look at it properly, is something I tend to skim over without getting anything out of it.
- The book felt incredibly dated. Science has come a long way since this it was published, and alone the fact that Pluto was named as a planet and declared an enigma and that Jupiter and Saturn were declared to have much less moons than they have made it feel like some of the scientific stuff was outdated.
The colonisation of Aborigines and Red Indian (yes, those terms are used) was compared to predator-prey relationships in evolution and just felt really out of place.
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