How do you recognize life? Whether on Earth or in space, looking for living organisms?or evidence of life ? ... Spacecraft have already been to Mars, the moon and numerous other places in the solar system, but we haven't found life anywhere yet. ... In general the tests will scan for the same types of evidence as we would look for to detect Earth microbial life: . ... The first thing that will be done with samples is to 'look' for visual signs or chemical evidence of life. ...

... Very few of us can do something without the feeling that it can be done and done good. So, I want to say several words on the possibility of building the Open society in Russia. ... Even if we can't find long happy periods in the history, but can find ideas, which were original for Russia and the whole world, which were created by Russian philosophers, we can say that we can try to build the Open Society, because Russian way of thinking has something in common with the ideas of the Open society. ...

... Ziggy's sun has still not risen, but Ziggy's moon has set, making it much easier to see faint things in the sky. ... When you look anywhere in the sky you see vast numbers of stars. But when you look at any part of the Milkstain, you see vast numbers of stars packed close together. ... The Fuzzballs · While scanning the sky (away from the Milkstain) with your most powerful telescope, you kept coming across small fuzzy objects, which you are calling "fuzzballs". ... Some Fuzzballs. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Choosing the Right Microscope . ... On most microscopes the specimen glass remains fixed while the microscope's objective lens and eyepiece move as a unit up or down to focus the image. ... Eyepieces of varying powers work with objective lenses of varying powers to yield a range of microscope magnifications. ... Magnification: The effective magnification of a microscope is determined by multiplying the eyepiece power by the objective lens power . ... about meade |...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Suppose a star explodes into a supernova at a distance of about 100 lightyears. ... Supernovae are very bright, and they put out light at all different wavelengths. ... For a typical supernova to be as bright to the human eye as the Sun, it would have to occur at a distance of about a light year from the Earth. ... For a supernova to be as bright as a good solar flare, it would have to be at a distance of about 5-60 light years or so away. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Internet Sites | ... Dr. Bob's Home Page - A page dedicated to the wonders of science. ... Links to Earth/Sun Sites - Here is a site from an online 8th grade lesson plans. ... The Origins of Halloween - A fairly rational discussion of Halloween's origins in the ancient Celtic New Year festival, Samhain. ... The Fall Holidays on the Web - A pages with links to sites discussing the various Jewish autumn holidays, including the harvest festival Sukkot. ... To Seek or not to Seek? ... ECT Home Page . ...

The emergence of life based on amino acid and RNA/ DNA on an Earth type planet requiers a quite narrow parameter space of many of the planet's physical parameters, most important are its mass and temperature conditions. ... The period, more or less, is conserved for the giant planets.) ... Thus, the mass of a terrestrial planet suitable for the advent of the LANA should be close to 5*10 27 g. The same value follows from quite a different condition: the planetary atmosphere should be retained. ...

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... IX Title Bulkmail :: Dynamic 3pm .TH Bulkmail :: Dynamic 3pm 2003-12-22 perl v5.8.4 User Contributed Perl Documentation .SH NAME Mail :: Bulkmail :: Dynamic \- platform independent mailing list module for mail merges and dynamically built messages .SH AUTHOR .IX Header AUTHOR Jim Thomason, jim @jimandkoka.com .SH SYNOPSIS .IX ... So in one mailing, you can use merge_keys, dynamic_message_data, dynamic_header_data, and global_merge. ... And your name is NAME." ...