"Without the explosions of supernovae, the heavy elements so essential to life itself would be unavailable, and stars would lack the raw materials to form planets ( Read more... )

"The issue is the level at which evolution operates."

Live evo action now with replay in the lab.

Selection on many different levels - an interesting idea.

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Neat.

The possibility of life right next door? That would be awesome. Of course I don't know how much faith to put in the computer models predicting that there could be rocky earth like planets in the habitable zone . . . most of the exosolar planets that have been detected have been gas giants ( Read more... )

However unintentionally . . . . I thought I was reading an Onion article at first.

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One of my more obvious OCD symptoms is a repetitive ritual where I check to see that I have set my alarm clock. There are three settings: off, music, and buzzer. My ritual involves turning the alarm setting to the OFF position and then setting it to music, and then testing the volume of the music with the 'radio on' button. I know it sounds ( Read more... )

Some days I feel like Algernon on the wheel :-P