archive-1: SETI Biodiversity in NGM and another VLA image

SETI Biodiversity in NGM and another VLA image

Larry Klaes ( lklaes@bbn.com )
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:47:47 -0500

The entire February, 1999 issue of National Geographic Magazine
is devoted to Earth's biodiversity. This includes a map supplement
and an article on Antarctic life forms under its ice.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/9902/hilights.html

http://tectonic.nationalgeographic.com/2000/biodiversity/index.cfm

http://tectonic.nationalgeographic.com/2000/exploration/maudland/

Here is a series on Antarctica called Cold Science
from USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/antarc/acoldsci.htm

Here is yet another nice image of the VLA, courtesy
Chris Johnson's Web site:

http://www.geocities.com/~kris_j/seti/radio1.jpg

And here an image which makes me think of what life
might be like on the shores of an alien ocean on an
Earth-like planet in some other star system:

http://photo.net/photo/pcd2619/elephant-seal-colony-63.tcl

You could say they don't look very intelligent by just
laying there on the beach, but if an ETI saw humans doing
the same as they always do on the beaches every summer,
would we appear any more sophisticated?

Larry