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wolvensnothere: The Alternate Universe where David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky are make-out-fighting over who gets control of the camera on the joint directorial project of DUNE, while the fully self-actualized NASA/Google Quantum Autonomous Created Consciouness scrolls through their most recent Home Depot colour swatch and iTunes clickbrowses to get the right mood for the soundtrack. […]

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Study: seemingly cool planets could be warm enough to host life underground (Wired UK)

To calculate habitable zones across the galaxy we take into account a host star’s luminosity, along with the planet’s distance from it and that planet’s size relative to the star.

The well-established Goldilocks theory, however, fails to take life beneath the surface into account, where temperatures dramatically change.

“As you get deeper below a planet’s surface, the temperature increases, and once you get down to a temperature where liquid water can exist – life can exist there too,” PhD student at the University of Aberdeen Sean McMahon said. “The deepest known life on Earth is 5.3km below the surface, but there may well be life even 10km deep in places on Earth that haven’t yet been drilled.”

The computer model was used to estimate what the temperature beneath the surface would be of any given planet it had the necessary parameters for. It found that the habitable zone would be around three times bigger than previously thought if it included the first 5km beneath an Earth-like planet’s surface. When depths of up to 10km below the Earth’s surface were included, the model found the habitable zone was 14 times wider. Applied to our own Solar System, it means the habitable zone extends beyond Saturn.

“The results suggest life may occur much more commonly deep within planets and moons than on their surfaces.”

“Rocky planets a few times larger than the Earth could support liquid water at about 5km below the surface even in interstellar space (i.e. very far away from a star), even if they have no atmosphere because the larger the planet, the more heat they generate internally.”

Study: seemingly cool planets could be warm enough to host life underground (Wired UK)

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Podcast discussing the Pig-Chimp Hybrid hypothesis in more depth. Which is basically this: Dr. Eugene McCarthy is a Ph.D. geneticist who has made a career out of studying hybridization in animals. He now curates a biological information website called Macroevolution.net where he has amassed an impressive body of evidence suggesting that human origins can be best explained […]

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Believing in history is easy enough—we have little choice, as it turns out, because regardless of what you care to think, history is believing in you. But suggesting the possibility of belief in the future seems to be a major revelation for some. As if I told you that yesterday happened. It is big business for some, to assure others that the future will happen. There are profitable Churches of the Fact of the Future, whose only function is to verify the existence of the cosmology of history in general. Their scam is encouraging you to believe that knowledge of history in general is enough to let you know your own personal future. But specific questions of a personal future are not the real issue here.

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The question to ask of the future is not what, but why? The future, as I have seen it, is the future. There were new technologies, new triumphs, new tragedies. There were new occurrences of the continued existence of humanity in the future, with all the suffering and bleeding and spitting and gushing and moaning in pleasure and pain. All the time and thought given up to reassuring ourselves that we are experiencing something, and that we will likely go on to experience something different. All of that navigating, to assure ourselves that we are standing where we stand. But to ask why, would take up all those precious resources with a much more difficult question. Why was the future the way it was? How did the future get so fucked up, and despite the fact that we could remember that the future would be the way it was, we still watched it occur with barely a shake of our heads? We know the facts of history, and yet we seem to merely remark upon them. We spend so much time confirming the obvious fact, we barely pause to think why.

The answer isn’t a simple existential theory. If only it were as simple as mere eschatological motive or rationale. If only the sidewalk and the roadway were a grand plan. Shoes and cars would be angels. But there’s no skill required here. There is little talent to learn. I remember the future of driving and walking, and it is very much like walking and driving in a car. There is always more street, and all the street is now connected. The future is visible in these streets, and it looks like streets, full of dust, blown up to obscure where street signs might exist

http://www.thestate.ae/seeing-the-future/

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