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...team examined “HD 189733b,” a large, gaseous planet similar to Jupiter. It is 60 light-years from Earth...
...atmosphere as they wish without consequence. But these days are no longer. Nearly every crucial human activity today—agriculture, transportation, heating, construction—ultimately adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than it removes, and our lifestyles will have to change drastically if we want our planet to survive. We’re about to lose more than just the freedom to choose light bulbs, but that’s the price we’ll have to pay if we want our species to last far into the future...
Astronomers have measured the infrared spectrum of a planet outside our solar system for the first time ever, though they failed to find what they were looking for: signs of water or other molecules necessary for life...
...life and a darn good rocket fuel as well. Some estimates put the number of asteroidal water deposits at 5 million. Some metallic asteroids have 100 times the concentration of gold of any mines on earth today. (Earth's gold results from some of those asteroids crashing into the planet.) "While exploration is going on, we can use those natural resources. There is no life there, no ownership, no private-property rights," he points out. No rules--an entrepreneur's dream...
...scientifically correct thesis about a creature that lived 65 million years ago. His work was deemed scientifically “impeccable” by his dissertation adviser. But Ross is also a believer in “young Earth creationism,” the theory that that the planet is only as old as Eden. While it may appear inherently intellectually dissonant to work within the strictures of science, which holds that the Earth is millions of years old, during the day, yet privately ascribe to a belief that holds that the Earth is at most 10,000 years...