From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 08:10:03 PDT
Today in Science/Astronomy:
* Is E.T.'s World a Planet?
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/dyson_seti_020725.html
Freeman Dyson is betting that alien life doesn't live on a world like yours. More specifically, if you check out the tentative wager this celebrated physicist has logged at the Web site www.longbets.org, you'll see that Dyson's hunch is that the first discovery of extraterrestrial life will be made someplace other than on a planet or on a satellite of a planet.
* Science and Music Merge for Fall Concert
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/space_music_020725.html
A group of musicians are working with an astrophysicist to put together a performance built around signals from space recorded over the last 40 years. Commissioned by NASA, the musical production "Sun Rings" is a collaboration between the string group Kronos Quartet and University of Iowa researcher Donald A. Gurnett.
* Observing 'Alien' Life on Earth
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/vents_europa_020724.html
The best place to learn how to identify extra-terrestrial organisms may not be in space, but beneath the Earth's oceans.
* Evidence for Ancient Bombardment of Earth
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/earth_bombarded_020724.html
The Moon provides a stark snapshot of the violence of our early solar system. Its largest craters are evidence of asteroid impacts that scarred the surface between 3.8 billion and 4 billion years ago.
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