SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA "Dad, did you ever imagine that your formula would become so famous?" I ask the kind-eyed, 91-year-old person next to me on the patio.
My dad, Frank Drake, is quiet for a moment. Perhaps he's thinking back to the November day 60 years ago when he unceremoniously drafted a formula that went on to shape humankind's hunt for extraterrestrial civilizations.
Mysterious origin of Earth's water may be explained by solar wind | New Scientist
The sun's solar wind may have played a key part in delivering water to Earth, solving a vexing mystery about where our planet's seas and oceans came from.
Studies of meteorites have found them to be surprisingly rich in water, suggesting that early in our planet's history 4.6 billion years ago, incoming asteroids delivered water and allowed Earth to become the habitable world we see today.
Jonas Valanciunas body swaps with Steph Curry, goes 7-7 from downtown while scoring 29 in
Jonas Valančiūnas is a big man, both literally and in basketball parlance. The Pelicans center just cracks the seven-foot barrier and tips the scales at 265 pounds. He's not a shooter. He's not a dribbler.
On Monday night, however, in some sort of Freaky Friday body swap arrived four days early, Valančiūnas became Steph Curry, going 7-7 from beyond the arc for 29 points in what has to be the most incredible, unlikely explosion of jump shooting from a big man in NBA history.
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NASA to Launch a Telescope Bigger and More Powerful Than Hubble | KQED
NASA is performing the final physical exam on its James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited successor of the venerable Hubble Space Telescope.
The agency will launch the telescope on a European Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana, sending it into space on a historic mission to probe currently unobservable reaches of our universe.
15 best science and environment books 2021 | Culture | The Times
A few miles from Edinburgh rise the Five Sisters — giant slag heaps left behind when Scotland's oil-shale industry ground to a halt. These mountains of shattered rock are now wildlife hotspots, home to hares, badgers and more plant species than Ben Nevis.
'Love Has Won': Spiritual Sect From 'Mother God' to Mummified Corpse - Rolling Stone
On April 28, 2021, Miguel Lamboy walked into the Salida Police Department and told authorities that they would find an enshrined, mummified corpse, formerly Amy Carlson, at his house in Crestone, Colorado .
When Saguache County police officers arrived at Lamboy’s house in Crestone, they found Carlson immediately. They could see the twinkling, multi-colored makeshift shrine from down the hallway. The scent of sage hung in the air, according to an officer on the scene.
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Now known as the Drake Equation, this formula jotted down by Frank Drake before a meeting in 1961 still provides a… https://t.co/suja0hXt75 NatGeo (from Global) Tue Nov 30 16:35:19 +0000 2021
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