Stellar life histories are briefly discussed as well as prerequisites for a
life-supporting planet. It is suggested that most single stars of the main
sequence between F5 and K5 could probably support life of an advanced form
on the planets revolving around them. Temperature and atmosphere of
Mars and Venus are discussed in detail and speculations made as to the
existence of life there.
Life on other plao.ets ~- what are the possibilities? Flying saucers, Oct. 1966:
8-11.
Summar; ot current scientific data on the possibility of intelligent life on
other planets in our solar system. Reprinted from the BUFORA (England)
Journal and Bulletin.
Limits of organic life in our solar system. American review of i·eviews, v. 43,
Feb. 1911: 242-243.
MJOre, Patrick. The worlds around us. New York, Abelard-Schuman, 1956.
157 p.
Outlines conditions under which carbon-based life can survive and applies
them to sun, moon, planets, satellites, and asteroids in the solar system.
Hypothesizing that this is the only kind of life possible in the universe,
author concludes that men on earth are alone in the solar system. Asserts
that reports about visits to earth by extraterrestrial spacecraft are only
good stories.
Munitz, Milton K, Theories of the universe from Babylonian myth to modern
science. Glencoe, Ill., The Free Press, 1957. 437 p.
Survey of current trends in scientific cosmology against the background of
earlier efforts and achievements. Beginning with one of the earliest ventures
in the form of myth, materials are included exhibiting the principal stages
of progress in cosmological inquiry from antiquity up to the present time.
Ogden, Richard C. The creation of the solar system. Flying saucer review,
v. 4, July-Aug. 1958: 14-18.
Author reveals that there are more than nine planets in our solar system and
gives locations of three newly-discovered planets; that our solar system
contains more than one asteroid belt; and gives information on how man can
dei, gravity and apply this knowledge toward building a spacecraft that can
maneuver outside earth's atmosphere.
Ovenden, Michael. Life in the universe. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1962.
160 p.
Recent discoveries in biology, chemis1;ry, and physics that may provide clues
to possibilities of life in Solar System and beyond are discussed, T'~rrain
and atmospheres of Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn are considered as
well as r>robability of similar conditions existing on planets of other stars.
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