Life will find a way.
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2 posted on
02/07/2006 2:00:20 PM PST by
tricky_k_1972
(Putting on Tinfoil hat and heading for the bomb shelter.)
To: tricky_k_1972
One estimate of the Milky Way's inhabitable zone:
To: tricky_k_1972
Extremophiles have been found that can withstand massive doses of radiation, breath rust, eat sulfur, belch methane and live without oxygen or sunlight.I don't know what "breath rust" is, but if you have it, I recomment lots of tic-tacs...
4 posted on
02/07/2006 2:10:58 PM PST by
Onelifetogive
(* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
To: tricky_k_1972
Life will find a way.It does indeed. A keynote speaker at a USENIX convention shared a story of a split brain human subject. The subject's brain had been surgically split into left and right hemispheres with a slice through the corpus callosum. The brain performs different processing tasks on the left and right hemispheres. The surgical cut prevents the hemispheres from directly cooperating.
The subject was given tasks that normally require some left/right coordination. After a brief time, the subject was observed tracing out patterns in the palm of one hand with a finger from the opposite hand. The loss of direct communication via the corpus callosum was being replaced by a mechanical/tactile path with fingers and palms.
5 posted on
02/07/2006 2:12:21 PM PST by
Myrddin
To: tricky_k_1972
Count every single grain of sand on every beach surrounding every content on earth.
If those grains were stars, our Sun would represent one grain of sand. I am no UFO chaser by any means but the odds are too overwhelming....
6 posted on
02/07/2006 2:18:36 PM PST by
HOTTIEBOY
(The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
To: tricky_k_1972
We should have been off this backwater hole thirty years ago. What is the holdup?
7 posted on
02/07/2006 2:19:16 PM PST by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: tricky_k_1972
This gravitywell-centric view always ticks me off.
If a race has the means to travel beyond it's solar system it certainly has the means to prosper without planets.
16 posted on
02/07/2006 2:43:58 PM PST by
mrsmith
To: tricky_k_1972
I thought this was about Michael Moore...
17 posted on
02/07/2006 2:44:14 PM PST by
RockinRight
(Attention RNC...we're the party of Reagan, not FDR...)
To: tricky_k_1972
Scientists recently discovered that Saturn's moon Enceladus, for example, contains a mysterious hot spot in its southern hemisphere that might be caused by radioactive material left over from the moon's formation billions of years ago. qUITE A HALF-LIFE!
29 posted on
02/07/2006 3:21:18 PM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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31 posted on
02/07/2006 3:22:05 PM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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54 posted on
02/07/2006 6:01:07 PM PST by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: tricky_k_1972
spaceref.com
[Monday, February 6, 2006] According to NASA's FY 2007 budget documentation "The Terrestrial Planet Finding project (TPF) has been deferred indefinitely." In other words, it is dead. NASA is just afraid to say so.
What's up with this? Was there a thread?
56 posted on
02/07/2006 7:50:06 PM PST by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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