Discovery News picked this up, it's awesome how Viral it got.
Love the part about the descent back through the atmosphere.
-"What was going through your mind as you were coming back to earth?"
-Ron : "I hope the heat shield and parachutes work"
-"Huh, I was expecting something more like "I was...
Thanks for correcting me, I replaced rose with the sun setting for some reason. And yes, I believe that glim is a synonym to shine or light. But this is cool, thank you for replying - now I know :-)
Good morning, yesterday night I was out for a walk, and as usual - Venus and Jupiter rose in the West which is pretty hard to miss. But I also knew that Mars would rise in the East. I spotted a red shining point of light in the east and in the hazy city sky I assumed this was Mars. So my...
Well that doesn't have to be a eliminating factor? Scientists found microorganisms in a toxic lake in California and I also read about something similar happening in Siberia. The microorganism substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in its cell components.
Quoting a NASA article...
In January, the NASA Kepler team decided to let citizens take a look at data that their algorithms had already gone through. In form of graphs generated by the brightness of the stars. The point was to spot a pattern in the transitions, that could possibly prove to be a planet or a binary star...