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reddressgnome

holiday reading list

Jan 07, 2007 23:44

in my family, christmas is mostly for reading(also, puzzles, and the christmas crossword, and skating) :) when i arrived home my little sister showed up with a stack of books for me to borrow while i was there. and i got some as gifts. and i read other people's gifts!

( the original trickster, poetic monks in the rockies, teen vampires, clairvoyant crossdressers, astrobiology, and bagpipes )

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klingonlandlady January 8 2007, 13:01:03 UTC

Thanks! Been looking for reading suggestions. Glad you had a nice holiday!

Life life everywhere, but not a drop that thinks. anonymous January 8 2007, 23:56:15 UTC

Does that book promote the panspermia hypothesis? The idea that life is/has spread throughout the universe via "seeds". An interesting idea that life on earth may have came from a metorite that originated from another life-bearing planet.

Re: Life life everywhere, but not a drop that thinks. reddressgnome January 9 2007, 17:12:57 UTC

is this Sal? :)

It doesn't so much promote it as describe it. I haven't finished that section but so far it said that the types of molecules that they think life can start from(right-handed proteins?), have been found on meteorites.

Re: Life life everywhere, but not a drop that thinks. anonymous January 11 2007, 03:53:43 UTC

yeah, maybe one of these days I'll start a blog of my own, and have an ID.

I've heard of right and left handed amino acids before, but I guess those are proteins, too.. I think. I remember reading somewhere that they've even found rather complex hydrocarbons in nebulae. So much fascinating stuff out there, it's like the guy in Contact said, it'd be an awful waste of space if no one else was out there.

the greater good anonymous January 31 2007, 03:00:45 UTC

Did you ever get to read the greater good? Sounds interesting. I've been checking out possible NGO jobs and it is amazing the depth and variation in charities. Also amazing how professional and sophisticated many of them are in delivering results. Yet I haven't figured the balance that society as a whole can leave these problems to be solved by an assumed charity system.

Re: the greater good reddressgnome February 1 2007, 15:55:58 UTC

actually, no, i haven't read it yet. it's sitting on my coffee table(actually i don't have a coffee table, i use a plastic storage bin) staring at me and making me feel guilty about not contributing to society while i watch fluff like "Tank Girl" :p