Planetary scientist Dr. David Grinspoon makes the case for life on Titan today in an intriguing interview with Astrobiology Magazine. Interesting stuff, to be sure, but the really interesting stuff comes in his book, Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life (2003), excerpted in six-parts at their site, here.
The author says his work is "not strictly a science book but a work of natural philosophy"; expounding on the stuff that sci-fi writers have been conjuring up for a century, he offers pragmatic scientific views for what is possible and we can prove it. He even touches on the possibility aliens are currently here right now, "studying us or perhaps even infiltrating our societies."
Grinspoon is a planetary scientist working at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
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