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  title info:
    title: Astrobiology
    sub title: science, ethics, and public policy
  name:
    name part: Torres, Octavio Alfonso Chon
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Peters, Ted
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Seckbach, J. (Joseph)
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Gordon, Richard
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (432 p.).
  abstract: Astrobiology is an exploding discipline in which not only the natural sciences, but also the social sciences and humanities converge. Astrobiology: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy is a multidisciplinary book that presents different perspectives and points of view by its contributing specialists. Epistemological, moral and political issues arising from astrobiology, convey the complexity of challenges posed by the search for life elsewhere in the universe. We ask: if a convoy of colonists from Earth make the trip to Mars, should their genomes be edited to adapt to the Red Planet's environment? If scientists discover a biosphere with microbial life within our solar system, will it possess intrinsic value or merely utilitarian value? If astronomers discover an intelligent civilization on an exoplanet elsewhere in the Milky Way, what would be humanity's moral responsibility: to protect Earth from an existential threat? To treat other intelligences with dignity? To exploit through interstellar commerce? To conquer?
  note: edited by Octavio Alfonso Chon Torres, Ted Peters, Joseph Seckbach, and Richard Gordon.
  subject:
    topic: Exobiology
  subject:
    topic: Exobiology
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Exobiology
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  classification: QH326 .A88 2021
  classification: 576.839
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      title: Astrobiology
    name:
      name part: Torres, Octavio A. Chon
    origin info:
      publisher: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2021
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  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 211009
    record change date: 20260214214942.9
    record identifier: in00004687314
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng