ISBN: 9781605376295
Editorial: Clavis
Autor: Leyssens, Jan
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 32
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: About the AuthorJan Leyssens (°1987) is a designer, dreamer and the father of two children whom he constantly bothers with – according to himself – interesting facts (and fabrications) about the world, the universe, and the human being as one of the most fascinating animals on our planet. When in September 2017 TEDxAntwerp asked him on stage, he chose not to talk about his profession as a designer and entrepreneur. Instead, he talked about the stories he tells his kids, not about knowing stuff, but about the drive to discover and learn new things. The reactions on the talk were so positive, he decided to write down the stories. Stories inspired by the curious way kids look at the world, and the part before knowledge becomes knowledge.The third book in the non-fiction series Marvelous But True about scientific wonder, focussing on Astrobiologist Carl Sagan and his search for extraterrestrial life. Dreaming, daring, thinking, and doing. For researchers ages 6 years and up.The Seventies. Astrobiologist Carl Sagan is looking for ways to get in contact with extraterrestrial life through Nasa's Voyager program. When NASA sends satellites to the back of the solar system -- and even further -- Carl takes his chance: he launches all kinds of sounds and images from planet Earth into space. He collected and sent 115 pictures and 55 sounds in the forms of greetings to see if there would be a response from extraterrestrial life. The satellites are still in space, collecting valuable data, and NASA predicts they can still make contact with them through the year 2025. How did he do that? And where are they going to end up? Is there life in outer space?From School Library JournalGr 2-4-Astrobiologist Carl Sagan (1934-1996) designed messages to be sent on satellites traveling beyond the solar system. This third installment in the "Marvelous but True" series describes how Sagan and others first designed plaques that were attached to the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 satellites. Sagan and his team later worked on creating golden records, which would carry sounds and images into space. In 1977, the Voyager satellites were launched, with Sagan's golden record attached. These discs also included instructions for playing. Voyagers 1 and 2 left our solar system in 2012 and 2018, respectively. Scientists expect the satellites to continue on their journey into space indefinitely. Translated by the publisher, this text reads smoothly, but there is one surprising mistranslation: The satellites are called "hand-made objects." Adults who have some background knowledge of this topic may find some statements questionable. It is not true, for example, that we "know that there's no life on the moon." Scientists haven't discovered evidence of life yet, but they don't rule out the possibility. Sneyers's illustrations feature cartoons, sketches, and full-color images. There is a wordless spread with a satellite leaving its rockets behind; another spread depicts imagined alien receivers. These images do not match the exciting energy of the subject. VERDICT An optional purchase. Readers have been better served by titles such as Stephanie Roth Sisson's Star Stuff and Kathleen Krull's Starstruck.Kathleen Isaacs, Children's Literature Specialist, Pasadena, MD α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Review"The third book in this series for me, and I think the best – although the 'How the Earth Moves' one was great, too. They all share a similar aesthetic, and text-wise they try to look at just one or two people from our science history who can show a basic tenet of the world. So one showed just a couple of people researching the bottom of the sea, the other a scientist who was pooh-poohed about plate tectonics. This book, then, gives us Carl Sagan, and the people who devised the gold laser disc-styled postcards that were sent out into space in the 1970s. It's eq
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