Five Billion Years of Solitude (41 page)

Sara Seager and Mike Wevrick, “Sixty Days in the Land of Little Sticks: Part 1: Cochrane, Thlewiaza, Little Partridge, and Kazan Rivers,”
Nastawgan, the Quarterly Journal of the Wilderness Canoe Association
, vol. 23, no. 1 (1996), pp. 1–7.

Henry David Thoreau,
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
(Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854). I quote from the book’s fifth section, entitled “Solitude.”

Robert Zubrin,
Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
(New York: Tarcher, 1999).

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acid runoff,
173
,
175

Alienopoly,
260

Allegheny Plateau,
124
–28

Allen, Paul,
12

Allen Telescope Array (ATA),
12
–14,
41
,
42

Alpha Centauri,
36
,
52
,
73
,
232
,
234

search for planet near,
94
–98

simulations of planetary assembly in,
96
,
97

American Astronomical Society,
194

Americas,
21
–22

anaerobes,
129
,
140
,
142
,
143
,
169

Anaximander,
78

Anderson, Eric,
258

Andromeda Galaxy,
31
,
191
,
238

Anglada-Escudé, Guillem,
64
–69

anthracite coal,
125
,
131
,
134
,
136
,
137
,
144
,
160
,
184

Anthropocene era,
135
–37,
145
,
146

anti-gravity devices,
100

Apollo program,
1
,
50
,
151
,
187
,
202
,
212
,
239

Archean Eon,
139
–40,
141
,
169
,
171
,
184
,
200

Arecibo Observatory,
39
–42

Ares V,
203

Aristarchus,
79
–81,
86

Aristotle,
78
–79,
82

Arthur, Janice,
121
–23

Arthur, Mike,
121
–24,
127
–30,
136
–38

Asimov, Isaac,
152

asteroids,
3
,
19
,
76
,
110
,
140
,
154
,
258

Earth struck by,
30

astrobiology,
15
,
153
,
169
,
231

astronomy,
4
,
33
,
48
,
111
,
190

Copernican Principle (principle of mediocrity) in,
83
,
89
,
91

golden age of,
192

modern, beginning of,
82

see also
cosmology

Astrophysical Journal Letters,
67

Atchley, Dana,
15

Atlantis,
185
–87

ATLAST (Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope),
198
,
203
,
230

atomic weapons,
23
–24

atoms,
43
,
79
–81,
248

Automated Planet Finder (APF),
61
,
70
,
114

Bahcall, John,
249
,
251

Bains, William,
261

Barnard’s Star,
52

Baum, Frank,
11

Beichman, Charles,
221
–22

Berner, Robert,
178

Big Bang,
89
–91

biosignatures,
167
–72,
261
–62

black holes,
88
–89,
191
,
206

black shales,
123
–26,
135
,
137
–38,
141

in Marcellus formation,
126
–30,
137
,
138
,
141
,
144
,
160

Bode, Johann,
109

Bode’s law,
109
–10

BoingBoing.net,
74

Bonfils, Xavier,
66
–69

Bradbury, Ray,
98
–99

Bryson, Bill,
144

Bush, George W.,
196
,
198
,
215
,
221
–23

Butler, Paul,
55
,
58
–70,
96
,
114

Caldeira, Ken,
181

California,
105
–7,
112
–13

gold rush in,
105
–6,
111
,
112
–13

Calvin, Melvin,
15
,
19
–20,
25

Cambrian Period,
138
–39,
143
–45,
182

Cameron, James,
258

Campbell, Joseph,
261

Canada,
244
–48

Canadian Shield,
246

Capella,
239

carbon,
123
,
131
,
132
,
134
,
135
,
140
,
141
,
175
,
179
,
182

carbonate-silicate cycle,
175
–81,
184

carbon cycle, organic,
175

carbon dioxide (CO
₂
),
124
,
132
,
134
–37,
140
,
141
,
157
,
159
–62,
168
,
170
,
172
,
173
,
175
–82,
184

Carboniferous Period,
131
,
132

Carina Nebula,
238

Carnegie Institution,
251

Carpenter, Scott,
100

Carter, Jimmy,
240

Cash, Webster,
219
–20

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory,
96

Challenger,
3
,
188
–89

Chandra X-Ray Observatory,
192
,
209