Links With Your Coffee - Friday
- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ammonia on Mars could mean life
Ammonia may have been found in Mars' atmosphere which some scientists say could indicate life on the Red Planet.
Researchers say its spectral signature has been tentatively detected by sensors on board the European Space Agency's orbiting Mars Express craft.Ammonia survives for only a short time in the Martian atmosphere so if it really does exist it must be getting constantly replenished.
There are two possible sources: either active volcanoes, none of which have been found yet on Mars, or microbes.
- t r u t h o u t | Gore Says US Must Abandon Fossil Fuels by 2018
President Al Gore said on Thursday that Americans must abandon fossil fuels within a decade and rely on the sun, the winds and other environmentally friendly sources of electric power, or risk losing their national security as well as their creature comforts.
- 'VOICES OF SCIENCE - Available Now on DVD' by Richard Dawkins, Steven Weinberg, Lawrence Krauss, PZ Myers, David Buss - RichardDawkins.net
- The Elder Storytelling Place | Collective Critical Censorship
A sweet story of the generations. I'd have loved to have been there.
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I think Norm is wearing his Freudian Slippers.
Posted by: The Magnolia Electric Co.
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July 18, 2008 10:59 AM
It's been a long time since I took biochem, and I didn't do all that well.
I wish I knew someone who could explain why microbes are necessary for ammonia production.
Posted by: Syngas
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July 18, 2008 11:32 AM
I know someone who could tell you, and he even had a nice multi-paragraph explanation typed out, but when he tried to post it - and the damned 1gm server went down and it was all lost. Unfortunately, by the second attempt, his OCD had kicked in, and his explanation wasn't worth a damn.
Posted by: Tim
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July 18, 2008 5:58 PM
Doh!
Does that count as a post?
Posted by: Syngas
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July 18, 2008 6:18 PM
I am very excited about the possibility of finding proof of extraterrestrial life on Mars. Not so much for the discovery of life itself, but for the explanations most of the world's religions are going to have to dream up to defend their precious books. It will be grand entertainment.
Posted by: Chuck | July 18, 2008 10:15 PM
Personally, I'd find life on Mars to be infinitely more fascinating than the dreary rationalizations dreamed up by close-minded religious automatons. When I was a kid, I read Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End and thought that Clarke had come up with the final coffin nails for religious mythology. But Clarke was wrong - not even a wholly benevolent invasion by a super race of alien Lucifer-lookalikes would kill religious superstition.
Posted by: Tim
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July 19, 2008 4:14 PM
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