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Help Support Our Mission to Keep the Show on Air Tonight, among many other things, we’re going to be talking about “Time Capsules” …. This week, it was reported out of Australia that a women — walking on a beach one evening at low tide — came across an old bottle, which when opened revealed the oldest “message in a bottle” ever recovered– One hundred and thirty two years old! A few weeks ago, Elon Musk launched his first Falcon Heavy “super rocket” into space, on a trajectory vaguely headed “toward Mars.” The “payload” was as unusual as the rocket that launched it: Musk’s own, cherry-red Tesla Roadster! Included in the “glove box,” according to one of Musk’s tweets, was another kind of “message in a bottle” — a set of small quartz discs, billed as a kind of “space library/time-capsule” … containing, we […]
Richard’s Items: 1. Rosetta’s comet contains ingredients for life 2. At 96, Dr. Heimlich Uses His Own Maneuver on Choking Victim 3. Michelle Obama to SFIS grads: ‘Our world needs you’ – excerpt of commencement speech begins at 1:20 4. SpaceX successfully lands a Falcon 9 rocket at sea for the third time Michelle’s links: 1. Obama’s Hiroshima visit reveals progress of reconciliation, disagreements over history 2. At Hiroshima Memorial, Obama Says Nuclear Arms Require ‘Moral Revolution’ Chandra’s Items: 1. Polonnaruwa meteorite as proof of extraterrestrial life gets support at presidential level in Sri Lanka 2. Brochure pdf 3. Arthur C. Clarke & Chandra Wickramasinghe 4. Fred Hoyle & Chandra Wickramasinghe 5. 6. Chandra’s latest books including collaborations with Fred Hoyle Astrobiology website: www.buckingham.ac.uk/research/bcab Personal website: www.profchandra.org ISPA website: www.ispajapan.com Professor […]
