Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51492-7 - Talking about Life: Conversations on Astrobiology Chris Impey Index More information Index 2001: A Space Odyssey, 206, 369 Ancestor simulation, 345 Artificial intelligence, 330, 331, Anderson, Donald, 115 335, 338, 346 A Brief History of Time, 348 Andretti, Mario, 368 Artificial signal, 309, 313, 318 Abell, George, 255 Animal Asimov, Isaac, 28, 72, 179, 366 Acasta gneiss formation, 83 behavior, 144, 148, 155 Asteroid, 206, 211, 220, 222 Accretion, 204, 245, 249, 250, brain size, 157 Astounding Stories of Super Science, 252 cognition, 145, 156 367 Acetylene, 184 communication, 152 Astrobiology: A Multidisciplinary Acetylene cycle, 184 consciousness, 163 Approach, 190 Agassis, Louis, 179 culture, 160 Astronaut, 42, 43, 56, 57, 372 ALH 84001 meteorite, 26, 27, intelligence, 155 Astronomer Royal, 365 51, 91, 94, 112, 127, 180, language, 156 Atacama desert, 174, 175, 238 189, 212, 340, 350 learning, 147, 151 ATP, 108 Allen, David, 294 memory, 150 Augmented reality, 332 Allen, Paul, 313 self-awareness, 156, 163 Avatar, 332 Allen Telescope Array, 311, 312, social behavior, 159 313, 315, 322 transmitted knowledge, Bacteria, 18, 28, 63, 88, 89, 90, Allende meteorite, 221 160 91, 99, 105, 106, 119, 120, Alpha Centauri, 264, 268, 272, Antarctic dry valleys, 103, 127, 128, 129, 131, 139, 273 169 164, 175, 271, 297, 301, Alternative biologies, 173, 195, Antarctica, 176 351, 375, 384 353 Anthropic principle, 60, 334, Bains, William, v, viii, 69 Alvarez hypothesis, 114, 117 337, 343, 354 Barite, 90 Alvin submersible, 104 Anthropic reasoning, 335, 342, Baross, John, v, viii, 73, 102 Amino acid, 64, 126, 139, 211, 344, 364 Bayesian probability theory, 271, 351 Apollo program, 36, 37, 47, 55, 342 Ammonia, 61, 64, 77, 108, 111, 193, 371, 372 Behavioral ecology, 144, 157 184, 192 Archean era, 82, 105 Belief systems, 186 Amoeba, 162 Aristotle, 10, 23, 24 Bell, Alexander Graham, 372 Analog Science Fiction Magazine, Arrhenius, Svente, 351 Bell Burnell, Jocelyn, 311, 367 Arthropod, 135 320 398 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51492-7 - Talking about Life: Conversations on Astrobiology Chris Impey Index More information Index 399 Benner, Steve, v, viii, 58, 101, Callisto, 201 Computational chemistry, 67 182, 189, 195 Cambrian era, 144 Computational methods, Billingham, John, 306 Cambrian explosion, 112, 244, 245 Binary star, 247, 253 115, 132, 137, 171 Computers, 12, 68, 124, 195, Biochemical unity, 107 Campbell, John, 367 244, 245, 259, 267, 273, Bioengineering, 327 Carbon dioxide, 77 327, 330, 331, 359 Biological landscape, 74 Carbon isotope, 116, 126 Condensation sequence, Biological system, 74 Carbon nanotubes, 372 210 Biomarker, 7, 37, 73, 126, Carr, Bernard, 363 Consolmagno, Guy, vi, viii, 263, 291, 295, 296, 297, Carter, Brandon, 342 217 298 Cassini, Giovanni, 199 Contact, 28, 36, 314, 315, Biomineralization, 138 Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, 320 Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 223 184, 201, 203 Convergence Biotechnology, 61, 70 Catalytic reactions, 107 in biology, 139, 140, 141, Bird song, 153 Catalytic system, 74 144, 159, 307, 341 Black hole, 349 Catling, David, 131 Copernican revolution, 24, Black smoker, 104 Celestial Worlds Discovered, 54 29, 261, 276, 283, 302 Bode’s law, 245, 246, 270 Cephalopod, 141, 143, 144, Copernicus, Nicklaus, 25 Boltzmann brain, 365 145, 149, 150, 335 Coral reef, 144, 149, 153, Boron, 60 Cephalopod Behaviour, 144 238 Boss, Alan, vi, viii, 243 Cetacean, 140, 155, 156, 157 Core accretion, 249, 251, Bostrom, Nick, vi, viii, 337 Chambers, John, 270 252, 270 Bova, Ben, vi, ix, 366, 366, Chaos theory, 76 Coronagraph, 282, 296 370 Charbonneau, David, vi, viii, Cosmic imperative, 352, 353, Bowyer, Stuart, 306 278, 284 354 Boynton, Bill, 234 Chimpanzee, 163, 335 Cosmic parameters, 360 Brain Chlorophyll, 301, 302, 349 Cosmos, 32, 34, 35 capability, 365 Cholesterol, 63, 88, 89, 126 Counterfactuals, 60, 362 energy cost of, 159 Chromatophore, 146 Creationists, 14 structure, 145, 159, 161 Cicero, 384 Crick, Francis, 357 Brenner, Sidney, 357 Clarke, Arthur C., 28, 310, Crisp, David, 294 Briggs, Derek, 138 323, 359, 366, 369, 372 Cryogenic biosphere, 78 Broker, Wally, 190 Cocconi, Giuseppe, 308, Cryovolcanism, 184, 192 Brown, Tim, 287 317 Cultural evolution, 163 Brown dwarf, 306 Cochran, William, 247 Cuttlefish, 152 Brownlee, Donald, 172 Comet Cyanobacteria, 119, 125 Bruno, Giordano, 354 life in, 301 Cyclops report, 306 Buick, Roger, v, viii, 81, 84, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, 87, 90 294 Dark energy, 52, 362 Burgess Shale formation, Comet Tempel-1, 200 Dark matter, 317 134, 135, 136, 137, 139 Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Darwin, Charles, 16, 17, 135 Butler, Paul, 231, 247, 248, 3, 4 Darwinian evolution, 161, 257, 264, 265, 266, 268, Complex systems, 355 182 273 Complexity, 62, 75, 132, 172, Davies, Paul, vi, viii, 347 Butterfield, Nicholas, 136 344, 355 Davis, Sumner, 230 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51492-7 - Talking about Life: Conversations on Astrobiology Chris Impey Index More information 400 Index Dawkins, Richard, 35 formation of life, 194 bottleneck, 334, 335, de Duve, Christian, 21 future of life, 11 380 Deep Impact spacecraft, 200, habitability, 190 burst of, 116 203 history of life, 125 chemical, 59 Deinococcus radiodurans, 96, 97 impacts by asteroids, cosmic, 34 Denning, Kathryn, 155 222 cultural, 379 Diatom, 138 moment of inertia, 115 Darwinian, 59, 140 Dick, Steven, v, viii, 22 nitrogen atmosphere, environmental Dickens, Charles, 384 220 influences on, 95 Dinosaurs, 53, 125 oldest rocks, 84 filter, 339, 340 Disk instability, 243, 250, oxygen atmosphere, 119 human, 338 251, 252 plate tectonics, 190 mass extinction, 67 DNA, 18, 20, 33, 52, 59, 60, prebiotic, 63 molecular, 20 63, 64, 65, 74, 95, 96, snowball episode, 117 of brain size, 157, 158 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 111, spectrum of, 299 of complexity, 129, 171 113, 128, 156, 173, 175, tectonics, 108 of eyes, 144, 383 194, 271, 349, 360, 381 Earth: Evolution of a Habitable of intelligence, 53, 132, Dolphin, 155, 156, 159 World, 189 140, 142, 157, 159, Doomsday scenario, 335, Ediacara era, 137 162, 323, 354, 357, 341, 342 Edison, Thomas, 372 365 Doppler method, 290 Electromagnetic radiation, of life, 16 Doppler shift, 255, 256, 257, 153, 325 post-biological, 334, 343, 259, 260, 268, 277, 286, Elephant, 161, 382 346, 359 313 Emergent phenomena, 354 rate of, 330, 339, 340 Doyle, Laurance, 156 Enceladus, 193, 196, 201, 202 technological, 332, 333, Dr. Strangelove, 369 geysers on, 202 380 Dragon’s Egg, 28 water on, 193 ExoMars spacecraft, 175 Dragons of Eden, 189 Encephalization quotient. Exoplanet Drake equation, 291, 344, 359 See Encephalization ratio 47 Ursa Majoris, 259 Drake, Frank, 7, 29, 180, 306, Encephalization ratio, 150, 51 Pegasus, 247, 259, 314, 317, 323, 340, 380, 159, 160, 161, 323 275, 286 384 Enzyme, 20, 62, 63, 76, 111, 55 Cancri, 261, 262 Druyan, Ann, v, 31, 35, 314 328 70 Virginis, 259, 260 Duck Creek formation, 130 Epistemology, 343 architectures, 220 Dyson, Freeman, 7, 189, 350, Ethogram, 152 atmospheres, 133, 275, 357 Eukaryote, 99, 131, 195 280, 288, 295 Europa biosignatures, 283 Earth analog, 226 composition, 281, 287, as a planet, 190 life on, 68, 109, 164, 302 biomass, 302 180, 192, 218, 339 cores, 291 cosmic perspective, 47 ocean, 218 density, 279, 286 early atmosphere, 18 Evolution, 129 detecting Earths, 268 extreme environments, 8 and contingency, 307 detection of, 7, 256, 259, formation of, 14, 82, 191 and diversity, 76 358 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51492-7 - Talking about Life: Conversations on Astrobiology Chris Impey Index More information Index 401 Dinky, 266 Experimental science, 248 Fieldwork, 83, 95, 113, 124, discovery of, 180, 189, Exponential change, 328 136, 148, 149, 153, 174, 255 Extraterrestrial life 175, 176 diversity, 290 and popular culture, 38, Fine-tuning arguments, 343, Earth-like, 273, 277, 299, 40, 186, 349 344, 359 349 and religion, 227 Fischer, Debra, vi, viii, 262, eccentric orbits, 261, belief in, 186 264, 266 269, 271 civilizations, 310, 334, Focal animal sampling, 149 eclipses, 278, 286 335, 339, 344, 359 Forward, Robert, 28, 360 first discovery of, 231, colonization, 310, 325, Fossil, 86, 100, 115, 124, 129, 246, 285 334, 339, 345 133, 135, 136, 157, 212 Fourpiter, 266 contact with, 227 atomic, 89, 126 Gliese 876, 262 evidence for, 51, 127 body, 86 habitability, 190, 294 first discovery of, 196 molecular, 88 HD 149026, 262 history of idea, 23 trace, 87, 126 HD 209458, 287, 288 impact of discovery, 10, Foster, Jodie, 36, 37, 305, 314 hot Jupiters, 247, 250, 21, 173 Fractionation, 90 269, 275, 289 in an infinite universe, Frost, Robert, 6 imaging, 275 344 Fry, Iris, v, viii, 13 incidence of, 191 intelligent, 10, 307, 314, Fundamentalism, 38 Jupiter analogs, 261 318, 323, 375, 376 Future of Humanity life on moons of, 219 nature of, 380, 381 Institute, 338 mass distribution, 269 probability of, 338, 357, microlensing, 277 384 Gaia hypothesis, 66, 172, multiple-planet systems, sense of humor, 385 180, 190 266, 270 speculation about, 24 Galaxy Quest, 369 pulsar, 279 technology, 310, 323, Galilei, Galileo, 25, 180 rocky cores, 262 324, 325 Gamma ray burst, 311 size, 289 the search for, 349 Ganymede, 201 spectra, 299 world view, 29 Geochemical cycling, 103 super-Earths, 191, 260, Extra-vehicular activity, 45 Geological mapping, 84 261, 276, 283, 295 Extremophile, 64, 95, 96, Goldilocks principle, 8, 341 super-Jupiters, 191, 219, 100, 180, 183, 358 Goldin, Daniel, 180 276, 290 Eye Goldreich, Peter, 198, 247, survival in binary convergent evolution 248 system, 272 of, 162 Gould, Stephen Jay, 15, 132, temperature, 281 162, 307, 375 terrestrial, 268, 277, Fermi paradox.