From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 07:37:44 PST
EARLY EARTH
- Busting A Sod Along The Old Cambrian Way
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-02zu.html
Denver - Oct 31, 2002 - If you've ever had to scrape a barnacle, you can blame a trilobite for your trouble. The advent of trilobite-tilled, worm-worked muck a half-billion years ago may have helped feed an explosive evolution of early animal life in the oceans - including the sort of critters that today attach themselves to boats and piers.
- Methane Rich Greenhouse Boosted Evolutionary Process
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-02zt.html
Denver - Oct 28, 2002 - What constrained the evolution of life during the very hot early Earth? Was a simple drop in temperature largely responsible for the emergence of cyanobacteria, a large and varied group of bacteria with chlorophyll that carry out photosynthesis in the presence of light and air with concomitant production of oxygen? Was it a reduction in carbon-dioxide levels?
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STATION NEWS
- Russo-Belgian Space Team Blasts Off For ISS Amid Security Concerns
http://spacedaily.com/news/021030114304.knbbycq4.html
Baikonur (AFP) Oct 30, 2002 - A Soyuz rocket carrying a team of Russian and Belgian cosmonauts to the International Space Stationblasted off from Kazakhstan on Wednesday amid heightened security following the hostage standoff in Moscow. The Soyuz-TMA rocket blasted off at 0311 GMT from the Baikonur cosmodrome and reached Earth's orbit within nine minutes, to the applause of the space officials and reporters who watched the lift-off at the fog-wrapped cosmodrome.
- Gravity Waves Analysis Opens 'Completely New Sense'
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/gravity-02c.html
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