Monthly Archives: March 2009

ET Go Home… Yikes!

Welcome On Planet Earth?. A disquieting little essay about the motivations of interstellar travellers. They’ve built a billion ton spaceship, travelled for decades, and we’re going to assume they’ll let us have Planet Earth to ourselves? With fusion-powered gigawatt lasers … Continue reading

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‘Consciousness signature’ discovered?

‘Consciousness signature’ discovered spanning the brain – health – 17 March 2009 – New Scientist. A New Scientist report based on a PLoS article and naturally it has stirred up a hornet’s nest of heated discussion. Philosophically the mind is … Continue reading

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The 94th Carnival of Space – Out of the Cradle

The 94th Carnival of Space – Out of the Cradle. Carnival Time, again! Roll up! Roll up! Get yer weekly fill o’ Space!

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Out of My Way, I’m a Gas Giant!

Asteroid belt mystery solved | COSMOS magazine. One of the biggest surprises of the past 14 years of exoplanet discoveries is the extremely close orbits Gas Giants and Neptune-class planets are being found in. This has supported the once theoretical … Continue reading

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Robot Explorers: A Mars program for the 1970s 1966

Robot Explorers: A Mars program for the 1970s 1966. Once upon a time there was a Red Planet covered in vegetation and maybe possessing some kind of animal life with an atmosphere perhaps 1/10th our own, made of carbon dioxide … Continue reading

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Carnival of Space #93: From our own planet, to exoplanets – The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society

Carnival of Space #93: From our own planet, to exoplanets – The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society. Carnival Time! Best pick – or most thought-provoking – is a strident advocacy of a Nuclear Pulse-Gun for launching massive cargo … Continue reading

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The Launch Pad: Carnival of Space #92

The Launch Pad: Carnival of Space #92. Carnival of Space #92… plus an addendum because it is so freaking HUGE!!! Carnival 92 Sideshow

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