Starship Asterisk*

I'm going to use "'huh?" more from now on when replying to people who are hard to figure or annoying. It's a way to get back on a level playing field.

The Syllable Everyone Recognizes By Jennifer Schuessler Published: November 8, 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/arts/that-syllable-everyone-recognizes.html?_r=0 Are there words that are universally understood, across all countries and cultures? A team of linguists has proposed one: “huh.” Huh...

yup. a little too early yet. 10 million have had complex life for billions of years, 10 more for only a few hundred million, and another 100 million never get past simple reproducing slime. This line of thinking is really fun.

Chris
Do you think my 50 million 'almost exactly like Earth is today' number, seems like a good guesstimate or not? maybe a billion?

Mark

Wonder Full news! http://khongthe.com/wallpapers/space/pearl-earth-229181.jpg next is to determine just how special Earth may be? Tens, hundreds, or thousands in the Milkyway alone, or in each galaxy. And wow! 100's of billions of galaxies out there too. I'll guess oh about let's say 50 million exac...

Chris wrote; "But what about radically different environments? What about the surface of icy bodies, or deep inside planets, or the bottom of extremely deep oceans (including oceans of something other than water)?" that's precisely where I was going. When we start getting clues as to what ...

This is the sort of thing that I don't want the field of astronomy to evolve into. Ann to devolve into? Maybe he just wants to reaffirm to himself and to the audience, eagerly, that there is a consensus amongst astronomers that there is most likely lots of life out there, as he believes. As evidenc...

And interestingly enough, any life spotted will have been entirely dependent on the planet's characteristics in form and type. If we find that 20% of sun-like stars have habitable planets, I bet if that's true, most better be very similar to Earth or we won't find much due to the fact that the perio...

After reading that wiki article, I'm thinking we are maybe the coolest life forms around. And much more common than any of our hot neighbors might be. The good thing is, we are more likely to find life like us because the periodic table seems to be fairly limited in the tricks it can use to make lif...

thanks!

those deep sea tubes get all their nutrients from minerals in the hot vents. Which is unique if I remember right.

I asked earlier, but not very well. Um does the periodic table give up any clues about whether there are potentially other ways to create life besides "carbon based"? And if so, someday after more research, we shall be looking for a wider variety of exo-planet types that may be habitable h...

I keep wondering if the Earth is not the product of a series of lucky circumstances that have turned our planet into a quite rare gem of Goldilocks habitability. Ann I think u r exactly spot on! A lonely jewel, one-of-a-kind. Maybe serendipity has something to do with it too. Speaking of luck, we'l...

I suspect that the preponderance of "any" life out there is quite limited in commonness by the periodic table. Life on Earth is 98% hydrocarbon based right? Does the periodic table lend itself to other types of life? Or are hydrocarbons basically it? If so, then life would need to follow a...

same here. Sunny 'n 49f today! Been cloudy, wet, and cool for over a week.
they say that most of December will be below average temps too. brrr.
not looking forward to that of course.

my 4yr old bumkin named Buddy. A chatty ex-runaway Turkish Van who is too pudgy to catch anything fast.

medicine just keeps getting better n better these days. good luck!

Ann wrote:So... it isn't my cat, and I'm not the one massaging it, but... isn't it pretty lovely?

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Ann

An orange Julius Caesar.

to me it behaves (moves) like an Aurora, a weak unusual one though.

IMO it depicts 2 important (head halo) people holding tools. It does not conjure up thoughts of extra terrestrials. It will be in our face if ET visits whether by accident or on purpose. Little hints and possible circumstantial evidence left behind is not enough 4 me. The distances between stars is ...

it goes deeper and older. RNA and DNA are really really old. We share similarities and traits with the oldest of animal species.
What's amazing is how tenacious life is.

It's possible the bear hybrids could be really huge, have a loud howling roar, and have a habit of standing upright to look even bigger!
http://www.ligerfacts.org/

Getting a long overnight/overdue soaking here just in time to replenish/recharge the soil before it starts freezing up.

THE END OF A HOT SUMMER
IT'S REALLY KIND OF A BUMMER
WHEN THE TEMPS BEGIN TO FALL
I'LL GET OUT MY TRUSTY BIRD CALL
PREPARED FOR A COLD WINTER
THE SNOW WILL MAKE ME A SQUINTER

I just made this one out of thin air. (get it ) I hope you like it.
lines alternate with 7 and 8 syllables.

your right of course. in my mind i was countering the atrocious. Mom read poetry to me b4 bed until i was 5. It comes easy for me. NASA Seeks Intergalactic Poetry http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/05/nasa-seeks-intergalactic-poetry/ NASA is inviting poets and space-afficionados to pen the...

Re: Poetry - please?

Postby MargaritaMc » Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:07 pm
I liked the improvisation, saturno. Did you write it?
(Edit - I've just seen that you did. Wow.)

in my defense mine follows the exact format of the original, and makes sense. I'll refrain in the future to be creative if it upsets.