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antipope.org - 10/30/2009
How habitable is the Earth?
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(Pay attention at the back: this is a trick question.) We H. Sapiens Sapiens appear to be an infestation on this planet. After the slow-burning evolution of hominins in Africa, our ancestral populations erupted out into Eurasia in a geological...
MESSENGER Solves Solar Flare Mystery
spacefellowship.com - 10/27/2009
MESSENGER Solves Solar Flare Mystery
— spacefellowship.com — In a case of being in the right place at the right time, the MESSENGER spacecraft was... able to capture an average-sized solar flare, allowing astronomers to study high-energy solar neutrons at less than 1 astronomical unit (AU) from the sun for the first time. When the flare erupted on Dec. 31, ... (more) MESSENGER Solves Solar Flare Mystery

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Accretionary Wedge #21: Earth Science Outreach
magmacumlaude.blogspot.com - 11/1/2009
Accretionary Wedge #21: Earth Science Outreach
— magmacumlaude.blogspot.com — Happy Halloween! I hope you all are having a fun day of candy-and-costume-filled spookiness. And speaking of... playing different roles, Earth scientists wear one hat in particular that's very important: the Outreach Hat! That's why the subject of ... (more) Accretionary Wedge #21: Earth Science Outreach

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blogs.discovermagazine.com - 10/27/2009
LCROSS didn’t destroy the Moon. Whaddya know?
— blogs.discovermagazine.com — On October 9, a Centaur rocket booster, watched and followed by the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing... Satellite, impacted the Moon at several kilometers per second . Slamming into a crater near the lunar south pole, the hope was that the impacts ... (more) LCROSS didn’t destroy the Moon. Whaddya know?

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The Earth Is Not Habitable
Transterrestrial Musings — The Earth Is Not Habitable…to first order, any way. Some thoughts from Charlie Stross. This entry was posted on Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 9:54 am by Rand Simberg and is filed under ...

Blue planet
john hawks weblog — Charles Stross: "How habitable is the Earth?" The point is this: we are finely tuned survival machines that have evolved to survive in a niche on one particular planet in one particular epoch. Even our own planet is unimaginably hostile to our kind of life for most of its history. And while survival outside that niche is possible with the assistance of a horrendously complex toolkit we call "civilization", we've yet to try it somewhere where we can't count on the basics (free oxygen and triple point water).

Geology Links for October 30th, 2009
The Geology News Blog — ... 2009: Eurozine – The climate of history: Four theses – Dipesh Chakrabarty RealClimate: An open letter to Steve Levitt Marcia’s Science Teaching Ideas Antes q todo mejor que es un variograma? – Yahoo! Argentina Respuestas Respuestas ANÁLISIS DE LAS METODOLOGÍAS HABITUALES PARA LA GENERACIÓN DE MODELOS DIGITALES DEL TERRENO – Mapping Interactivo Charlie’s Diary: How habitable is the Earth? Rock (geology) – ...

Geology Links for November 1st, 2009
The Geology News Blog — ... Database – Search Options USGS Maps Booklet Geologic Map of Mars The USGS Store – One stop shop for all your maps, world, United States, state, wall decor, historic, planetary, topographic, trail, hiking, foreign, satellite, digital Interactives – The Rock Cycle class222 - Georgia geologic map data Earth Science Literacy Initiative – ESLI Charlie’s Diary: How habitable is the Earth? Geography For Kids – By ...

Parameterizing Drake
Scientific Blogging — ... . Assuming that the Earth is not a singular planet, given the age of the universe, why isn't intelligent life everywhere? Earth, as seen from not Earth (Apollo 17) Which brings us to science-fiction writer Charlie Stross , who suggests that part of the paradox is that the Earth is not as ...

Geology Links for November 9th, 2009
The Geology News Blog — ... What is a Rock? Volcanic activity could split Africa | COSMOS magazine BLDGBLOG: One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik Welcome to Astro-Venture! …Search for and design a habitable planet! Virtual Courseware : Home Bestcrystals.com – Crystals, Minerals, Fossils, Meteorites, Rocks SERC Mineralogy Database Charlie’s Diary: How habitable is the Earth? Mix It Up 10 Deepest Caves ...

Geology Links for November 11th, 2009
The Geology News Blog — ... from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for November 11th, 2009: Science Links The Geologic Time Scale Stress and Strain Britain beneath our feet BBC ice age eveidence Teaching resources in structural geology – Leeds University ScienceDirect – Journal of Structural Geology : Controls of folding on different scales in multilayered rocks Charlie’s Diary: How habitable is the Earth? Charlie’s Diary: How ...

Charlie Stross The Myth of the Starship
Ethical Technology — ... or cyanide) to season your gravity wells. So if you want to do anything at the other end — anything beyond looking around real good — you need to bring the minimal seeds of the infrastructure with which to build and maintain your biosphere (if you’re travelling with an entourage of meat puppets) or your mechanosphere (if you’re going the Eric Drexler/Hans Moravec/downloading-or-AI route). Which is why I was asking questions like this and this and this about a month ago. I was feeling my way towards ...

Charlie Stross The Myth of the Starship
Ethical Technology — ... or cyanide) to season your gravity wells. So if you want to do anything at the other end — anything beyond looking around real good — you need to bring the minimal seeds of the infrastructure with which to build and maintain your biosphere (if you’re travelling with an entourage of meat puppets) or your mechanosphere (if you’re going the Eric Drexler/Hans Moravec/downloading-or-AI route). Which is why I was asking questions like this and this and this about a month ago. I was feeling my way towards ...

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