NASA has to hope that Curiosity doesn’t find any. This is part of a broader issue. People who want to settle Mars had better hope we don’t find life there, or the biologists and greens will be decrying the “genocide” we might cause by contaminating the planet.
Category Archives: Space Science
Meteor Watching
Should be a good weekend for the Perseids. The moon isn’t new, but it will be out of the way for most of the night.
Sarcastic Rover
Well, this twitter feed was inevitable. It’s pretty good.
Comeback Kid
Is Curiosity a sign of a new NASA?
I’ll believe there’s a new NASA when Webb and SLS are finally put out of their misery. But the problem isn’t just NASA — it’s Congress.
Humans Versus Robots
The pointless debate continues. And of course, it continues to carry its implicit and unshared assumption with it (e.g., that the purpose of this is “science.”).
The Venus Transit
Here’s a live webcast from Fraser Cain, Phil Plait, et al.
The Transit Of Venus
How to watch it this afternoon.
You know, if we were a true spacefaring civilization, we’d move the planet to get it in the same orbital plane as earth so we could do this every few months instead of once a century or so.
No, National Geographic
The ISS is not 1200 miles up.
That California Meteorite
It turns out that it was a fairly rare type, containing amino acids.
The Rings Of Earth
What would they look like from the surface?