... Prior to that, Weiler was a member of the Princeton University research staff and was based at NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, as the director of science operations of the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-3 (COPERNICUS). ...
... The discovery by Copernicus in the 1500s that Earth orbited the sun and was not the center of the universe; Charles Darwin's work on evolution in the 1800s, which essentially removed humans from the center of life on Earth; and the discovery of planets ...
... In a new book, The Deep Hot Biosphere (Copernicus/Springer-Verlag, $27), Cornell Professor emeritus of astronomy Thomas Gold argues that subterranean bugs are us -- or at least they started the whole evolutionary process, and that there's no looming ...