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Just in time to answer the question : "What can we do with and where can we send a do-nothing Congress?", comes this report on the discovery of two earth-like planets orbiting Kepler-20 some 1,000 light years away in the constellation Lyra. alt@source : Eryn Brown @LATerynbrown || http://bit.ly/vQjfX2 ___ TQ : Topix Trivia } http://topix-trivia.blogspot.com ___ iPaper Mobile : http://bit.ly/txOOSH ___ http://altacities.com ~ the alternate blog ~ http://altamobile.co ___ When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change ___ http://socialcurrentsee.com ~ http://mippin.com/app/424220 ___ iTumblr : http://altacities.tumblr.com/ ___ Constant Comments : http://bit.ly/u4JwWT But a few months ago, the papyrologists tried something bold. They put up a website, called Ancient Lives, with a game that allowed members of the public to help transcribe the ancient Greek at home by identifying images from the papyrus. Help began pouring in. In the short time the site has been running, people have contributed 4 million transcriptions. They have helped identify Thucydides, Aristophanes, Plutarch’s “On the Cleverness of Animals,” and more. Ancient Lives is part of a new approach to the conduct of modern scholarship, called crowd science or citizen science. The idea is to unlock thorny research projects by tapping the time and enthusiasm of the general public. In just the last few years, crowd science projects have generated notable contributions to fields as disparate as ecology, AIDS research, and astronomy. The approach has already accelerated research in a handful of specialized fields. And it may also accomplish something else: breaking down some of th... read full post Of course, anything with moons I like. Thanks to Lorie Weisinger for thinking of me. Liked by Doreen Birdsell See all 0 comments 
'Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the Earth. Each of those worlds is as real as ours. In every one of them, there's a sucsession of incidence, events, occurences which influence its future. Countless worlds, numberless moments, an immensity of space and time. And our small planet, at this moment, here we face a critical branch-point in the history. What we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants. It is well within our power to destroy our civilization, and perhaps our species as well. If we capitulate to superstition, or greed, or stupidty we can plunge our world into a darkness deeper than time between the collapse of classical civilization and the Italian Renaissaince. But, we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet.... read full post |
