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Finding frugal aliens: 'Benford beacons' concept could refocus search for …
PhysOrg.com The search — centered at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. — has tapped into our collective fascination with the concept that we may not be … |
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Link to SETI Archive: seti.org Exploratory data analysis of planetary hyperspectral datasets – use of statistics to enhance mission science return
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Link to SETI Archive: seti.org Water, Molecular Oxygen and Ice in Star-Forming Molecular Cloud The Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe and its molecules (oxygen, water, carbon dioxide) a basic ingredient of life on Earth. Oxygen chemistry in the interstellar molecular clouds which form stars and planets has long been a mystery. We discuss that mystery and propose its resolution in this talk. Its resolution also suggests a way to synthesize complex carbon molecules in interstellar clouds and in protoplanetary disks.
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NASA Names New Director for Lunar Science Institute
Space Ref (press release) Morrison recently was appointed director for the Carl Sagan Center for Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute and continues part-time as a … |
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Link to SETI Archive: seti.org How do You Qualify Heat Shields on Earth? Plasma Reentry Wind Tunnel Research at NASA Ames John Balboni, NASA Ames Thermal Protection Test Facility Protecting spacecraft from severe heating during hypersonic flight is a challenging task that leaves no room for error. Likewise it is difficult to simulate on the ground the effects of flying at Mach numbers greater than 20. But that is what the NASA Ames arc jet facility does for designers of human spacecraft and robotic probes. It requires directing multi-megawatts of electrical power inside a tube less than 3 inches diameter containing hundreds of water cooled parts. All of that to perform a test on piece of heat shield material that you can hold in your hand. Come and hear how this capability developed, and how it is used every day. John Balboni has worked as a research engineer at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field for 25 years in the thermal protection test facility. His work lately has influenced the heat shield designs of the Mars Science Laboratory mission and the crewed Orion capsules.
ENCORE We could choose not to pay income tax and suffer the consequences. But we can’t avoid death. The biological functions of all organisms eventually cease. But why should this be? Find out why animals die and meet one creature that is biologically immortal.
Plus, a trip to the Body Farm where decaying bodies help science…how we might cheat the Big Sleep with drugs… why Mexican cemeteries look like villages… and a doctor’s fight against one of the world’s deadliest diseases.
Guests:
- Bill Bass – Forensic Anthropologist, founder of the University of Tennessee Forensic Research Facility. Author of Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science
and fiction, written under the pen name, Jefferson Bass. The latest: Bones of Betrayal: A Body Farm Novel
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- Stanley Brandes – Cultural Anthropologist, University of California, Berkeley, author of Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead: The Day of the Dead in Mexico and Beyond
- Matt Kaeberlein – Pathologist, University of Washington
- Ross Donaldson – Doctor and author of The Lassa Ward
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The unrelenting quest for questions
Muse On another front, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) institute is trying to equal the success of Jody Foster in Contact by looking and … |
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Link to SETI Archive: seti.org The Surface of Mars: Mineralogy as an Indicator of Water and Environmental Conditions
