Space Time Stories » nasa http://www.spacetimestories.com Space and Time Travel Stories. A Science Fiction Blog By Sean O'Brien Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:24:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Alien Microbes http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/alien-microbes/ http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/alien-microbes/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:05:11 +0000 Sean http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=652 Richard Hoover of NASA claims to have found alien microbes inside of a meteorite (right side,  left side is a real terrestrial bacterium).

I predict 2 types of responses:  pathological rejection and people who equate this with sentient space faring beings.

Frankly I think panspermia is the only theory of evolution which makes much sense.  Integrate evolution over 10 billion planets and 10 billion years and you get believable statistics.

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]]> http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/alien-microbes/feed/ 0 Where are the aliens? http://www.spacetimestories.com/fermi-paradox/where-are-the-aliens/ http://www.spacetimestories.com/fermi-paradox/where-are-the-aliens/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:02:52 +0000 Sean http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=456 “Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas planet, advancing astronomers toward the goal of being able to characterize planets where life could exist. The planet is not habitable but it has the same chemistry that, if found around a rocky planet in the future, could indicate the presence of life.”

If organic molecules are so prevalent where are all the intelligent space-faring aliens ?  The lack of evidence for aliens is strong evidence that we are alone, the random evolution of intelligent life is so rare that we are the only ones in the entire galaxy.  Note that this is not the same as saying “the random evolution of life is rare”.  There probably are bacteria in most solar systems.

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]]> http://www.spacetimestories.com/fermi-paradox/where-are-the-aliens/feed/ 3 Tiny screws in space http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/tiny-screws-in-space/ http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/tiny-screws-in-space/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 18:12:47 +0000 Sean http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=320 John Grunsfeld just dedicated his HST ACS repair work to “the study of the behavior of small screws in space.”

For the original Simpsons episode from Season 5 click here.

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]]> http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/tiny-screws-in-space/feed/ 0 Hubble repairs http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/hubble-repairs/ http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/hubble-repairs/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 01:23:37 +0000 Sean http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=299 It’s not science fiction today, but 50 years ago this repair mission would have been considered a great scifi story.

Here’s a link to the detailed mission timeline and NASA TV website.

Rendezvous is Wednesday morning, grapple is 11:54AM CDT.  EVA #1 begins early Thursday.

If you are reading this in the future you already know the results.

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