Traveling from Earth to Mars -- or other parts of the Solar System -- could be hazardous in unexpected ways. Traveling on an archetypal rocket ship -- pointed nose, streamlined for traveling through Earth's and other worlds' atmospheres, you know the drill, you've seen it on the covers of so many paperback science fiction novels -- would also ( Read more... )

Around 66 million years ago, an object some six miles in diameter impacted Earth in what is now the Yucatan. Not only did the kinetic energy of the impact itself cause great fires in southern North America and northern South America, but the blowback from that event in the form of debris kicked up by the impact falling back to Earth liberated even ( Read more... )

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Glykeria Manis is a New Yorker through and through. I became good friends with her when I lived in New York a number of years ago. Glykeria was born on the far ( Read more... )

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a future without jobs? Who needs'em anyhow?I think this is thought provoking, even if we are not quite at the stage where it is entirely relevant. Still, possibly the whole world will become one big Burning Man? With barter and only ( Read more... )

In an earlier post, I asked how it is that any sort of complex life still exists on Earth now, given the horrendous mass extinctions and their causes that have plagued the Earth down the ages. Okay, I've got another one for you: how is it that I'm still alive and kicking, after 66 years that have included some godawful personal medical disasters ( Read more... )

Here's one very good reason why:

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