From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Jun 23 2004 - 12:09:44 PDT
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I Want My Sci-TV
Americans love science in their movies and TV shows, yet recent reports indicate we are losing our scientific dominance to the rest of the world. Can science-themed entertainment get Americans off the couch and into the lab?
Biomolecules Without a Planet?
Molecules are typically looked at through a microscope but their spectra are also of intense interest to those manning the world's largest fully-steerable radio telescope. Seeing the fingerprint of an eight-atom molecule from twenty-six thousand light-years is not about optics as much as about speculating on how biomolecules might arise in deep space, in the absence of a home planet.
Leaving Home
This installment concludes the debate on terraforming Mars which included such luminaries as Sir Arthur C. Clark, Greg Bear, Kim Robinson, Donna Shirley and Chris McKay.
Planetary Uncertainty Principle
A biological version of what quantum physics calls the Heisenberg uncertainty principle centers on whether the act of looking for life on another world might somehow induce it to arise. NASA's Planetary Protection Officer John Rummel discusses the implications of planetary contamination with science-fiction author, Kim Stanley Robinson, and former Mars Pathfinder Mission Manager, Donna Shirley.
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