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- Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:22 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Doomsday Seed Vault
- Replies: 15
- Views: 132709
In Case of Apocalypse Later, a Plan to Ensure America's Regreening New York Times August 8, 2007 ************************* The Millennium Seed Bank Project, run by the Royal Botanical Garden, in Kew, England, aims to collect seeds from 10 percent of the world's flowering plant species and to stow th...
- Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:29 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Doomsday Seed Vault
- Replies: 15
- Views: 132709
The first Library on Mars is on its way with Phoenix. You can read about the Visions of Mars DVD here: http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/messages/vom.html Even if something happens to Phoenix, hopefully the disk will survive long enough for future explorers to find and play it. The disk may...
- Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:52 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution
- Replies: 33
- Views: 248604
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/The_Society_Of_Vertebrate_Paleontology_Speaks_Out_On_The_Creation_Museum_999.html The Society Of Vertebrate Paleontology Speaks Out On The Creation Museum For example, Tyrannosaurus rex existed over 65 million years ago, whereas modern humans didn't show up on the s...
- Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:10 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: The science and the fiction in science fiction
- Replies: 12
- Views: 100448
Biology in Science Fiction
Biology in Science Fiction http://sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com By Ken Newquist Those who think aliens with wrinkled noses are an infuriatingly lazy approach to depicting the potential diversity of life in the universe will find a welcome home at Biology in Science Fiction. The blog chronicles ...
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:25 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Transient Lunar Phenomena - TLP
- Replies: 0
- Views: 61767
Transient Lunar Phenomena - TLP
http://www.physorg.com/news102175962.html Astronomer Offers New Theory Into 400-year-old Lunar Mystery Image of TLP taken in 1953, courtesy of Columbia’s Department of Astronomy. The TLP is the small, bright spot in the center of the image. Credit: Columbia University Columbia astronomy professor Ar...
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:22 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Doomsday Seed Vault
- Replies: 15
- Views: 132709
DNA as the ultimate information storage device?
To quote: Using the same code that computer keyboards use, the Japanese group, led by Masaru Tomita of Keio University, wrote four copies of Albert Einstein’s famous formula, E=mc2, along with “1905,” the date that the young Einstein derived it, into the bacterium’s genome, the 400-million-long stri...
- Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:36 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Where Have All the Spacemen Gone? reprise
- Replies: 9
- Views: 83247
Michaud's Contact with Alien Civilizations
A review of the book Contact with Alien Civilizations here: Beep, beep, bop, be-bop. These could represent a new song or a communication from intelligent species on another world. With discoveries of more and more planets circling far away suns, there seems an increasing possibility that we have fel...
- Wed May 23, 2007 11:13 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Doomsday Seed Vault
- Replies: 15
- Views: 132709
New New Yorker article on George Bell's efforts to record
his entire life:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007 ... _wilkinson
his entire life:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007 ... _wilkinson
- Thu May 17, 2007 1:44 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution
- Replies: 33
- Views: 248604
Atheists with Attitudes
Excellent article in the May 21, 2007 issue of the New Yorker titled
Atheists with Attitudes online here:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/b ... s_gottlieb
Atheists with Attitudes online here:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/b ... s_gottlieb
- Thu May 17, 2007 1:41 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence / Synthetic Consciousness
- Replies: 38
- Views: 263799
Non-Computability of Consciousness Authors: Daegene Song (Submitted on 11 May 2007) Abstract: With the great success in simulating many intelligent behaviors using computing devices, there has been an ongoing debate whether all conscious activities are computational processes. In this paper, the ans...
- Thu May 17, 2007 1:38 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution
- Replies: 33
- Views: 248604
Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution
Guillermo Gonzalez, co-author of that amazing piece of pseudoscience The Priviledged Planet, was denied tenure at the University of Iowa. The Discovery Institute is crying foul, censorship, oppression, hellfire, etc. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy Blog has the details and some very useful links on the n...
- Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:49 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Really Old Stars Perhaps Ideal for Advanced Civilizations
- Replies: 7
- Views: 73864
Retired A Stars and Their Companions
Retired A Stars and Their Companions: Exoplanets Orbiting Three Intermediate-Mass Subgiants Authors: John A. Johnson, Debra A. Fischer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Jason T. Wright, Peter Driscoll, R. P. Butler, Saskia Hekker, Sabine Reffert, Steven S. Vogt (Submitted on 19 Apr 2007 (v1), last revised 19 Apr ...
- Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:46 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Doomsday Seed Vault
- Replies: 15
- Views: 132709
The Doomsday Seed Vault
Gates Grant To Help Poor Countries Contribute To Doomsday Seed Vault The seed vault in Norway will not flood if Greenland’s ice sheet melts, which some estimate would increase sea levels by seven meters (23 feet). by Staff Writers Rome (AFP) Apr 20, 2007 A Gates Foundation grant will help developing...
- Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:23 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Really Old Stars Perhaps Ideal for Advanced Civilizations
- Replies: 7
- Views: 73864
Online paper about M stars as habitable zones
“M Stars as Targets for Terrestrial Exoplanet Searches and Biosignature Detection,” appearing in the latest issue of Astrobiology:
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplu ... ookieSet=1
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplu ... ookieSet=1
- Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:17 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Preserving the Artifacts and History of Our Past for All
- Replies: 6
- Views: 65182
Preserving the Artifacts and History of Our Past for All
Preserving the Artifacts and History of Our Past for Everyone The original article can be found in the April 16, 2007 issue of the Tompkins Weekly newspaper at http://www.tompkinsweekly.com The history of early human civilization and the prehistory of our species were as rich and varied as our moder...