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Wait, Let's Not Rush To Be Multiplanetary Or Interstellar - A Comment On Elon Musk's Vision

... make Earth safer for all of us and prevent our eventual extinction. Is this the best use of this dazzling technology, able to send 300 ... quickly. That's the main reason many species may face extinction if we don't do something about it. To devastate Earth so much ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 28 2016 - 11:12pm - 0 attachments

New President - Pivot To Moon On Way To Mars? Lunar Spelunking & Science Surprises

... after the largest impacts on Earth such as the dinosaur extinction Chicxulub event, ( perhaps a million fragments around a cm in size, ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 27 2016 - 11:10am - 0 attachments

How Valuable is Pristine Mars for Humanity - Opinion Piece?

... let blue whales, rhinos, tigers, pandas etc disappear into extinction. Should we feel the same way about any unique species of life ... of 10 km or larger, like the one that contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Most of the material probably took millions of ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Jan 19 2014 - 11:23am - 0 attachments

6 Steps To Extinction

... framework', that traditional methods of modelling extinction do not work well for plants. Focusing purely on extinction can distract plant conservationists from growing problems. Instead ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2016 - 11:09am - 0 attachments

Chatelperronian Hominins: Disputed Neanderthal Region Confirmed In France

... cognition, their replacement by modern humans and eventual extinction. Despite intense research, the exact biological nature of the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2016 - 6:00am - 0 attachments

Ancient DNA Traces Extinct Caribbean 'Island Murderer' Back To The Dawn Of Mammals

... significant role that humans may have played in a recent extinction. source: Molecular Biology and Evolution (Oxford University ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 14 2016 - 11:30am - 0 attachments

Paleontology: A Monster Put In Its Place

... of speciation was probably made possible by the preceding extinction of a large proportion of the more primitive forms of predatory ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2016 - 3:27pm - 0 attachments

Case For Moon - New Positive Future For Humans In Space - Open Ended With Planetary Protection At Its Heart

... late to stop the spread of Earth life and the inevitable extinction of Mars life? There may be many other ways Mars life could be ... after the largestimpacts on Earth such as the dinosaur extinction Chicxulub event, ( perhaps a million fragments around a cm in size, ...

Article - Robert Walker - May 21 2016 - 10:26pm - 0 attachments

New Fossil Evidence Supports Theory That First Mass Extinction Engineered By Early Animals

... strengthens the proposition that the world's first mass extinction was caused by "ecosystem engineers" - newly evolved biological ... the environment so radically it drove older species to extinction. The event, known as the end-Ediacaran extinction, took place ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2016 - 9:08pm - 0 attachments

Can We Risk Microbes From Human Crashes - On Mars? If Not, What Happens To Dreams To Colonize The Planet?

... extinct, I think no reason to think of them as human extinction events. They are also exceedingly rare , the risk of a 10 km ... We'd surely be amongst the 1% that survive a mass extinction, along with turtles, crocodiles, alligators, flying dinosaurs (the ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 21 2016 - 5:28am - 0 attachments