Both sound like great books, the "Gods Equation" sounds a little overly mathamatical for me, but the life & death of planet earth" got me to thinking ?
If this cycle of birth & death of a planet is all part of the natural cycle, then perhaps our urge to explore beyond our own planet is something programmed deep within our genetic make up
An inbuilt survival mechanism that at some point in the evolution of our species, becomes active in certain individuals
, so that even it takes Millenia to achieve it, we will eventually find a way to travel to the nearest star with a habitable planet .......
Then again it could just be the inner trekkie coming out in me
