Archives for the 'Astrobiology' Category
Robots and the Coming Creation
Published on 13 Oct 2007 at 1:43 am.
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Filed under Astrobiology, Astronomy, Computation, Evolution, Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Philosophy, Research, Robotics, Space, Technology.
‘Am I already in the shadow of the Coming Race? and will the creatures who are to transcend and finally supersede us be steely organisms, giving out the effluvia of the laboratory, and performing with infallible exactness more than everything that we have performed with a slovenly approximativeness and self-defeating inaccuracy?’
- George Eliot,
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Large Reservoir of Water Ice Found on Mars
Published on 16 Mar 2007 at 4:51 am.
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Filed under Astrobiology, Exploration, Mars, Research.
The Mars Express probe launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) has been using ground penetrating radar to look for subsurface water. The instrument MARSIS, which stands for Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding instrument has succeeded in detecting an enormous reservoir of water ice frozen under the south polar ice cap. The [...]
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More on Possible Martian Critters
Published on 14 May 2006 at 1:55 am.
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Filed under Astrobiology, Evolution, Mars, Paleontology.
I find it fascinating that this Martian meteorite issue won’t die. It is well-known that it is sheer will alone that assures that the creature we call the Lich will get up again tomorrow evening, but that doesn’t seem to be what is going on here.
Dr. Martin Fisk, a professor of marine geology in the [...]
