Monthly Archives: January 2009

Centauri Dreams » Blog Archive » A Science Fictional Take on Being There

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Adam

Centauri Dreams » Blog Archive » A Science Fictional Take on Being There. Paul Gilster, el Supremo of “Centauri Dreams”, discusses Robert Metzger’s description of very subtle high-resolution means for ETIs to spy – in detail – on the whole … Continue reading →

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Sedna’s All Alone…

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Adam

[0901.4173] A Search for Distant Solar System Bodies in the Region of Sedna. A study by the discoverer of Eris, Mike Brown, and colleagues, finds that Sedna, the putative inner Oort Cloud object, seems to be rather lonesome out there. … Continue reading →

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[0901.4235] High Velocity Dust Collisions: Forming Planetesimals in a Fragmentation Cascade with Final Accretion

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Adam

[0901.4235] High Velocity Dust Collisions: Forming Planetesimals in a Fragmentation Cascade with Final Accretion. Forming planets is something of a puzzle – we can’t presently observe them directly in their early days, just the stars they orbit and the dust … Continue reading →

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Microwave Power Beaming paper, Please

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Adam

Microwave Power Beaming Infrastructure for Manned Lightcraft Operations. Looking for a PDF copy of this paper – if any of you have it or know Prof. Leik Myrabo well enough to ask, can you send it my way? Budget is … Continue reading →

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Expect Helium Showers This Aeon

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Adam

Helium rains inside Jovian planets. Extra heat from falling helium rain… who’d’ve thunk it? Actually it’s been postulated for a few decades, but now the high-pressure experimental physical chemistry has caught up with the theorising and finally it seems to … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Space #87 « The Martian Chronicles

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Adam

Carnival of Space #87 « The Martian Chronicles. Some cool entries this week covering the Martian Methane discovery and matters of space policy.

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Enhanced fusion reactions in metal deuterides

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Adam

[0901.2411] A model for enhanced fusion reaction in a solid matrix of metal deuterides. A model for enhanced fusion reaction in a solid matrix of metal deuterides Authors: K. P. Sinha, A. Meulenberg Our study shows that the cross-section for … Continue reading →

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Did life begin in a pool of acidic gloop? – life – 19 January 2009 – New Scientist

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Adam

Did life begin in a pool of acidic gloop? – life – 19 January 2009 – New Scientist. First thing that strikes me is: well that’s obvious! Getting out of the lab and into the wild is guaranteed to break … Continue reading →

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Were Mercury and Mars separated at birth? – space – 19 January 2009 – New Scientist

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Adam

Were Mercury and Mars separated at birth? – space – 19 January 2009 – New Scientist. Brad Hansen discovers that modelling a ring of debris makes two large planets and interrupts the growth of two others, thus reproducing the planets … Continue reading →

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Did dark energy give us our cosmos? – space – 17 January 2009 – New Scientist

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Adam

Did dark energy give us our cosmos? – space – 17 January 2009 – New Scientist. According to Paul Steinhardt and colleagues dark energy stretches out the Universe for a trillion years, then it bashes into another Universe in a … Continue reading →

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