11/12/2008
Contact with extraterrestrial life by 2025? (CNET)
At a talk on the topic of what it will take to find extraterrestrial life, a senior SETI astronomer predicts it could happen within two dozen years.
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11/22/2008
Scientists find huge glaciers on Mars (The West Australian)
Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have discovered enormous underground reservoirs of frozen water on Mars away from its polar caps in the latest sign that life might be s
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11/19/2008
Looking at Moons from Apollo 8 and Cassini (Scientific American)
Forty years ago, in December of the troubled year of 1968, astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders piloted the Apollo 8 spacecraft into orbit around the moon, the first humans ever to circle any globe but our own. From that unique vantage, they sent back the iconic photograph (taken by Anders) shown below, known as “Earthrise.” It unforgettably captured the fragile beauty of ...
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11/19/2008
Freeman Dyson Debunks Dire Forecasts on Global Warming and Other Tenets (Princeton Town Topics)
Freeman Dyson gets around. Last Wednesday, for example, the 85-year-old “retired” physicist regaled a lunchtime audience at the Nassau Club with his “heretical” ideas about global warming.
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11/19/2008
Front Page (Princeton Town Topics)
The Regional Planning Board met last Thursday to discuss the impact of Princeton University’s Campus Plan on traffic in the Borough and Township.
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11/19/2008
Other News (Princeton Town Topics)
Joe Boyd moved to Princeton when he was five and grew up listening to his paternal grandmother, a longtime resident, play the piano. Mary Boxall Boyd had studied in Vienna with Theodor Leschitizky and in Berlin before World War I with Artur Schnabel.
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11/14/2008
Now, Robbie Williams using tattoos to contact aliens! (New Kerala)
Melbourne, Nov 14 : Robbie Williams' obsession for extraterrestrial life has reached new heights - the singer is trying to contact aliens using his tattoos.
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11/15/2008
Microbes drove Earth's mineral evolution (Nature)
A comprehensive history of Earth's mineral wealth concludes that without life, many raw materials wouldn't exist.
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11/14/2008
Government Computer News (Government Computer News)
The National Academy of Sciences is hosting a Hollywood gathering of high-powered producers, directors and scientists next week to kick off its Science and Entertainment Exchange, an effort to inject a little reality into Tinseltown.
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11/14/2008
Life caused explosion in our planet's mineral wealth (New Scientist)
The realisation that most of Earth's minerals owe their existence to living processes could aid the search for alien life
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