Astrobiology: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 13: | Line 13: | ||
; H. G. Wells : [http://ia700304.us.archive.org/26/items/warofworlds00welluoft/warofworlds00welluoft.pdf ''The War of the Worlds''] | ; H. G. Wells : [http://ia700304.us.archive.org/26/items/warofworlds00welluoft/warofworlds00welluoft.pdf ''The War of the Worlds''] | ||
== 'An aroma of actuality' - Lowell vs. Wallace on the | == 'An aroma of actuality' - Lowell vs. Wallace on the Nature of Knowledge and Life == | ||
; Percival Lowell : [http://ia600304.us.archive.org/23/items/marsanditscanals00loweiala/marsanditscanals00loweiala.pdf ''Mars and Its Canals''] | ; Percival Lowell : [http://ia600304.us.archive.org/23/items/marsanditscanals00loweiala/marsanditscanals00loweiala.pdf ''Mars and Its Canals''] | ||
; Alfred Russell Wallace : [http://ia600409.us.archive.org/20/items/ismarshabitablec00wallrich/ismarshabitablec00wallrich.pdf ''Is Mars Habitable?''] | ; Alfred Russell Wallace : [http://ia600409.us.archive.org/20/items/ismarshabitablec00wallrich/ismarshabitablec00wallrich.pdf ''Is Mars Habitable?''] | ||
== From Martians with- to Martians as- | == From Martians with- to Martians as- Microbes == | ||
; Percival Lowell : [http://ia600504.us.archive.org/22/items/marsabodeoflife00loweiala/marsabodeoflife00loweiala.pdf ''Mars as the Abode of Life''] | ; Percival Lowell : [http://ia600504.us.archive.org/22/items/marsabodeoflife00loweiala/marsabodeoflife00loweiala.pdf ''Mars as the Abode of Life''] | ||
; Gilbert V. Levin : [http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/Labeled%20_Release_Gil_Levin.pdf The Labeled Release Experiment – Past and Future] | ; Gilbert V. Levin : [http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/Labeled%20_Release_Gil_Levin.pdf The Labeled Release Experiment – Past and Future] | ||
| Line 23: | Line 23: | ||
[[Image:C sarah2.jpg]] | [[Image:C sarah2.jpg]] | ||
== Alien | == Alien Communication == | ||
; NASA : [http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sounds.html Voyager: Sounds of Earth] | ; NASA : [http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sounds.html Voyager: Sounds of Earth] | ||
; SETI-X : [http://earthscramble.com/ Scrambles of Earth]<br> | ; SETI-X : [http://earthscramble.com/ Scrambles of Earth]<br> | ||
| Line 31: | Line 31: | ||
; Y. N. Zhuravlev, V. A. Avetisov : [http://www.biogeosciences.net/3/281/2006/bg-3-281-2006.pdf The Definition of Life in the Context of Its Origin] | ; Y. N. Zhuravlev, V. A. Avetisov : [http://www.biogeosciences.net/3/281/2006/bg-3-281-2006.pdf The Definition of Life in the Context of Its Origin] | ||
== Astrobiology from the | == Astrobiology from the Perspective of Sustainability == | ||
; Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto : [http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/6/1602/pdf Resistance of Microorganisms to Extreme Environmental Conditions and Its Contribution to Astrobiology] | ; Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto : [http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/6/1602/pdf Resistance of Microorganisms to Extreme Environmental Conditions and Its Contribution to Astrobiology] | ||
; Seth D. Baum : [http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/2/591/pdf Is Humanity Doomed? Insights from Astrobiology] <br> | ; Seth D. Baum : [http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/2/591/pdf Is Humanity Doomed? Insights from Astrobiology] <br> | ||
Revision as of 15:46, 29 September 2011
and The Search for Life on Mars
edited by Sarah Kember
Introduction: What is Life?
J. B. S. Haldane (1949) and Erwin Schrödinger (1944), two of the twentieth century’s most influential scientists, posed the direct question, ‘what is life?’ and declared that it was a question unlikely to find an answer. Life, they suggested, might exceed the ability of science to represent it and even though the sciences of biology, physics and chemistry might usefully describe life’s structures, systems and processes, those sciences should not seek to reduce it to the sum of its parts. While Schrödinger drew attention to the physical structure of living matter, including especially the cell, Haldane asserted that ‘what is common to life is the chemical events’ (1949: 59) and so therefore life might be defined, though not reduced, to ‘a pattern of chemical processes’ (62) involving the use of oxygen, enzymes and so on. (more)
'Here are phenomena that are passing strange'
- Percival Lowell
- Mars
- H. G. Wells
- The War of the Worlds
'An aroma of actuality' - Lowell vs. Wallace on the Nature of Knowledge and Life
- Percival Lowell
- Mars and Its Canals
- Alfred Russell Wallace
- Is Mars Habitable?
From Martians with- to Martians as- Microbes
- Percival Lowell
- Mars as the Abode of Life
- Gilbert V. Levin
- The Labeled Release Experiment – Past and Future
Alien Communication
- NASA
- Voyager: Sounds of Earth
- SETI-X
- Scrambles of Earth
What is life?
- Chris P. McKay
- What Is Life -- and How Do We Search for It in Other Worlds?
- Y. N. Zhuravlev, V. A. Avetisov
- The Definition of Life in the Context of Its Origin
Astrobiology from the Perspective of Sustainability
- Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto
- Resistance of Microorganisms to Extreme Environmental Conditions and Its Contribution to Astrobiology
- Seth D. Baum
- Is Humanity Doomed? Insights from Astrobiology
Afterword
- Sarah Kember
- Creative Evolution?: The Quest for Life (On Mars)