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He estimated that there are one million planets in our own galaxy where life could have originated. He also says that there are 100 billion galaxies of various sizes in the universe. (See p. 66.) Archaeologists realize that they have a tremendous task in trying to explain why humans rather sud- denly gave up their nomadic hunting and gathering lifestyle for a life of farming. (p. 108) Why did a lifestyle that had been so successful for tens of thousands of years give way to one so different. Modern hunting peoples, though living for the most part in marginal areas, are fre- quently better nourished and always more leisured than their agrarian neighbors...Agrarian peoples not only must work a good deal harder for their sustenance, but are much more precari- ously balanced in relation to their environment, since they have substantially altered the natural ecology of their surroundings. (From Dexter Perkins and Patricia Daley, p. 109) It was as if the elements had been unleashed. The Sun spun round. Scorched by the incandescent heat of the weapon, the world reeled in fever. Elephants were set on fire by the heat and ran to and fro in a frenzy to seek protection from the terrible violence. The water boiled, the animals died, the enemy was mown down and the raging of the blaze made the trees collapse in rows as in a forest fire....Horses and war chariots were burnt up and the scene looked like the aftermath of a conflagration. Thousands of chariots were destroyed, then deep silence descended on the sea. ... The corpses of the fallen were mutilated by the terrible heat so that they no longer looked like human beings. Never before have we seen such a ghastly weapon and never before have we heard of such a weapon. (From the Indian epic, Mahabharata) 183 Appendix B: Book Abstracts Sir Francis Crick There are billions of planets in the universe where conditions were and are favorable for life. (p. 66) Ancient Nuclear Holocausts Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation