Via Science Alert PETER DOCKRILL 18 DEC 2018 When Dutch colonists became the first Europeans to discover Gunung (Mount) Padang in the early 20th century, they must have been awestruck by the sheer scale of their ancient stone surroundings. Here, scattered across a vast hilltop in the West Java province of Indonesia, lay the remnants of a massive complex of […]

Via CosmicTusk.com Chandra Wickramasinghe on the NASA Mars Announcement – Cosmic Tusk Panspermia increasingly vindicated. The Tusk is honored to maintain a digital acquaintance with distinguished Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, who in the 1970’s with Sir Fred Hoyle established — and to my mind proved empirically — the theory of Panspermia. We had been corresponding concerning the jaw dropping recent genetic […]

If you’re holding out hope that Mars may have once been an inhabited world, two new studies should put a little spring in your step. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this self-portrait on Jan. 23, 2018, on the slopes of the towering Mount Sharp.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS[/caption]NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has identified a variety of organic molecules, the carbon-based building blocks of […]

Via WattsUpWithThat Anthony Watts / 3 hours ago April 15, 2018 We dodged a bullet today. It came within one half of the distance to the moon. I got this notice in email from NASA about a surprise asteroid that gave us only one day of warning passing halfway between the Earth and the moon. It was the largest known […]