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io9: Our Own Planet Would Kill Us Most Of The Time [Mad Geoscience]
| Interesting thought experiment by Charlie Stross - How Habitable is the Earth? http://bit.ly/4cWkWW via @phickey 9 days ago |
| How habitable is the Earth? http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/10/how_habitable_is_the_earth.html 11 days ago |
| A brilliant commentary of the utter improbability of finding the Earth to be inhabitable by Charlie Stross. http://bit.ly/1QDdCr 13 days ago |
Our Own Planet Would Kill Us Most Of The Time [Mad Geoscience]
io9 —
... And the future is likely just as dire — so what are the chances of finding another planet that matches the minority of our own planet's surface, with the exact same atmosphere as our own brief era? [Charlie's Diary] ...
October 30, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker —
... (for NaNoWriMo). (via Ellen Kushner) Mur Lafferty on Belief. C.L. Anderson on The Writing Life: Reality. Ying Compestine On Becoming a Hungry Ghost. Edward M. Lerner on Just slightly ahead of our time. Gary Gibson on An open letter to those terrified of e-piracy. Margaret Ronald on Aural Stories. N.K. Jemisin on It’s never “just a story”. Charlie Stross on How habitable is the Earth? Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Success ...
Links for 29th October 2009
Velcro City Tourist Board —
... they could create a crude reproduction of a movie clip that someone was watching just by viewing their brain activity. Others at the same meeting claimed that such neural decoding could be used to read memories and future plans – and even to diagnose eating disorders."
Tagged with: science • psychology • brain • neuroscience • scanning • memory • neural-decoding •
How habitable is the Earth?
"I want you to imagine that, instead of being a ...
SF Tidbits for 10/30/09
SF Signal —
... Ink has an Alternate Proposal (for NaNoWriMo). (via Ellen Kushner) C.L. Anderson on The Writing Life: Reality. Ying Compestine On Becoming a Hungry Ghost. Edward M. Lerner on Just slightly ahead of our time. Gary Gibson on An open letter to those terrified of e-piracy. Margaret Ronald on Aural Stories. N.K. Jemisin on It's never "just a story". Charlie Stross on How habitable is the Earth? Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer's Survival Guide: Success ...
Real science: Earth is uninhabitable!
Variety SF —
... tells us why aliens looking for an earth-like world are far more likely to conclude that earth is uninhabitable than otherwise, in this rather longish article. Or why our search for earth like worlds is even more complex than intuition suggests. ...

