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SEMP (Suburban Emergency Management Project) is a global, knowledge-based
organization focused on community-based disaster management. SEMP provides
information about evidence-based disaster management assessment and
good practices.
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"SEMP is a model of what can be accomplished on a local/regional level,
as deep background, and as a window to 'the field'".
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Stones Falling from the Sky, Part II: 1860 A.D.-2000 A.D.
How did Martian and Moon meteorites show up in Antarctica at the end
of the 20th century, and how did geologists know they were from Mars
and the Moon? Read
more by clicking here.
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"Astrobiology and Bacteria"
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Dear SEMP Summertime Reader:
Four new Biot Reports about the theory of panspermia, also called exobiology
by Dr. Joshua Lederberg and astrobiology by N.A.S.A., are available by
scrolling down.
Attention to astrobiology has exploded since the 1996 announcement
by N.A.S.A investigators of the identification of fossil bacteria in a
meteorite from Mars, recovered on the icy slopes of the Alan Hills in Antarctica.
The Earth is perpetually embedded in a dustpan of cometary and other kinds
of celestial dust, of which some 1,000 tons enter the terrestrial atmosphere
each year.
Bacteria are space-hardy. British astrophysicists have shown that the
average absorption wavelength pattern of COSMIC DUST GRAINS along the whole
path length from the galactic center to the Earth AGREES with the
average absorption wavelength of FREEZE-DRIED BACTERIA.
These ideas have an ancient history, but now science is validating
them with experimental observation, measurement, analysis, and synthesis.
Cordially,
Margaret R. O'Leary, M.D., M.B.A.
SEMP (Suburban Emergency Management Project)
Theory of Panspermia:
An Idea that Will Not Die
Did life on Earth emerge spontaneously from inorganic molecules struck
by lightening in a "warm little pond" (neo-Darwinian hypothesis
for the chemical evolution of life)? Or did seeds of plant and animal
life inherent in the cosmos take root on Earth whenever conditions
became favorable (panspermist hypothesis?) Become
enlightened, click here.
Miller-Urey Experiment:
Chemical Evolution of Life
In 1952 at the University of Chicago, graduate student Stanley L. Miller
combined methane, water, ammonia, and water and shocked it with electricity.
His Ph.D. advisor Dr. Urey (in photo) was doubtful about the experiment. What
did Miller find? Click
here to find out more.
Stones Falling from the Sky, Part I:
1400 B.C. 1860 A.D.
Reports of stones falling from the sky saturate historical writings,
yet scholars discredited them, beginning with the Greek philosopher Aristotle.
In the last decade of the 1700s A.D., so many people witnessed a series
of closely-spaced stone infall events, that scholars acceded, and
they attributed the stones to ejecta from volcanoes on the Moon. Find
out more, click here. |
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