It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own by David Toomey
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“Weird indeed, and not a little wonderful.”—Nature In the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single-celled algae in Antarctic ice floes, and fungi in the cooling pools of nuclear reactors. But might there be life stranger than the most extreme extremophile? Might there be, somewhere, another kind of life entirely? In fact, scientists have hypothesized life that uses ammonia instead of water, life based not in carbon but in...
Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own by David Toomey is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own aloud.
Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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