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| The Big Crunch: Interview with Dan Werthimer |
| Topic: Alien Life |
12/08/03 |
| Summary: Searching for intelligent life elsewhere has challenged this generation of scientists in a way previously inconceivable, requiring the processing power of the world's largest supercomputer. This priceless and vast scientific network is closer than one might naively imagine. |
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| Higher Concepts and Advanced Aliens |
| Topic: Alien Life |
12/04/03 |
| Summary: Planetary scientist Dr. David Grinspoon discusses his new book, 'Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life,' in this multi-part interview. The topics range from which planets are best candidates for harboring life. |
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| Carl Sagan: The Lonely Pale Blue Dots? |
| Topic: Alien Life |
12/03/03 |
| Summary: Planetary scientist Dr. David Grinspoon discusses his new book, 'Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life,' in this multi-part interview. The topics range from which planets are best candidates for harboring life. |
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| Hot World, from Resurrected Proteins |
| Topic: Extreme Life |
12/02/03 |
| Summary: University of Florida scientists have demonstrated a technique to perform a kind of biochemical archaeology. From the genetic sequences of ancient microbes, they have reconstructed the proteins that guided a past life when the Earth apparently may have been hotter than today. |
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| Predicting Primordial Weather |
| Topic: Geology |
12/02/03 |
| Summary: For life to begin from simple organic molecules, some preconditions for biochemistry are needed. Looking at some of the oldest rocks on our planet have posed a challenge that one has to dig deep to understand what the early Earth might have been like. |
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| The Search for Life |
| Topic: Alien Life |
12/02/03 |
| Summary: Planetary scientist Dr. David Grinspoon discusses his new book, 'Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life,' in this multi-part interview. The topics range from which planets are best candidates for harboring life. |
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| Lonely Planets and Rare Earths |
| Topic: Alien Life |
12/01/03 |
| Summary: Planetary scientist Dr. David Grinspoon discusses his new book, 'Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life,' in this multi-part interview. The topics range from which planets are best candidates for harboring life. |
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| Viking Dust |
| Topic: Mars |
11/29/03 |
| Summary: The soft-landing Viking missions to Mars offered a challenging set of experiments to test for biological activity in 1976. As biology has progressed in the ensuing quarter-century, one of the principal investigators continues to mull over what that mission sought to test. In preparation for the three planned missions. |
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| Guide to Mars: Interview with Bill Hartmann |
| Topic: Mars |
11/24/03 |
| Summary: Bill Hartmann, scientist, painter and author, talks about what Mars may offer the three landings missions planned this winter. His insight comes from serving as co-investigator on the Mariner 9 mission that discovered the first evidence of erosion patterns that even as images have gotten more sharp. |
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| The Unexplored Cosmos |
| Topic: Alien Life |
11/20/03 |
| Summary: Cosmos collaborators, Ann Druyan and astrophysicist Steven Soter, talk about the possiblities for finding life elsewhere and the implications for understanding humanity's own place in the universe. |
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