Darnit, Michael - I have hardly any heroes left!
- Original Message -
From: Michael Turner
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 12:49
AM
Subject: Re: Thomas Gold on alien life
deep under the surface
Thomas Gold did not show how the ear
27, 2004 3:14
AM
Subject: Re: Thomas Gold on alien life
deep under the surface
Yes - how the ear determines pitch and the true nature of pulsars are
just two of them:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13177893&BRD=1395&PAG=461&dept_id=216620
Almost as a
ess productive, and would finally
be even more underfunded than it is.
-michael turner
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- Original Message -
From:
LARRY KLAES
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:14
AM
Subject: Re: Thomas Gold on alien life
deep under the
Given all that, I would agree that the galatic panspermia concept is a
bit hard to swallow, but the biosphere/hydrocarbon theory has some merit
(in my opinion) because it is a bit more graceful than the concept that
hydrocarbons as we use them are all just 'dinosaur goop' as my kids like
to say
> Back on topic, I think that a lot of good ideas that deserve a good long
> look never make it to the light of day because they are scuttled by
> scientific scrutinity at too early a stage. It is always good to have
> some solid science behind you but Einstein was treated no better than
> Go
ge -
*From:* Michael Turner <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Sent:* Tuesday, October 26, 2004 11:10 AM
*Subject:* Re: Thomas Gold on alien life deep under the surface
Thomas Gold comes up with fascinating
an infinite number of Big Bangs
is just a variation on the Steady State theory.
Larry
- Original Message -
From: Michael Turner
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 11:10
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Subject: Re: Thomas Gold on alien life
deep under the surface
Thomas Gold c
gh
I like Jeff Bell's idea that every accomplished scientist is entitled to one pet
wacko theory.
-michael
turner
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- Original Message -----
From:
LARRY KLAES
To: europa
Cc: BioAstro
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 11:03
PM
Subject: Thomas Gold on alien life
Galactic Panspermia?
Are there bodies of planetary sizes that exist in abundance in the spaces
between the stars? We would not have discovered them even if they were so
numerous that their combined masses were an appreciable fraction of the total
masses of all the stars. Molecular clouds ma
