When the Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific they were immediately whisked off into quarantine, spending three weeks in a rather unglamorous steel shell for fear that they'd contracted lethal space-plagues. A recent paper by Professor Cockell of the Open University points out that the flow of life is more likely to be FROM the vast dirty ball teeming with billions of organisms TO the utterly dead space rocks. Who could have guessed?
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When the Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific they were immediately whisked off into quarantine, spending three weeks in a rather unglamorous steel shell for fear that they'd contracted lethal space-plagues. A recent paper by Professor Cockell of...  |
Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:44 AM PDT The Space Shuttle Atlantis will be the last of its kind sent to space by the U.S. NASA says it is interested in "deep space" exploration NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says that human space flight for America will not end...  |
ALMA antennas under the Milky Way. ALMA stands for Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. It has 66 high precision antennas, which are either 39 feet (12 meters) or 22 feet (7 meters) wide. ALMA is the largest astronomical project in existence....  |
Warming of the ocean's subsurface layers will melt underwater portions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets faster than previously thought, according to new University of Arizona-led research. Such melting would increase the sea level more than already projected. The...  |
It is a widely held and scientifically viable belief that humans originated in sub-Saharan Africa some 150 to 200 thousand years ago. However our migration away from there, to populate immediate areas and, later, the planet, is currently conjecture. Archaeological... Provided by The Daily Galaxy |
