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"If you possessed technologies so advanced that you could seed life throughout the cosmos, wouldn’t you leave some marker that would identify your work?" Possibly, but even so

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"We feel no more historical vertigo considering the Machine than we do the Dawn of Agriculture, and few if any of us wake up in the morning with a sense of deep angst about the move from hunting

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Via SF Signal: Ben Bova certainly knows how the op-ed is supposed to work. Does the answer to societal stupidity lie in getting people to read more science fiction?

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"One of anthropology's most enduring mysteries - the origins of the ancient Etruscan civilisation - may finally have been solved, with a study of cattle."

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"Located less than 60 million kilometers (or 36 million miles) from the Sun's surface, Mercury makes an excellent spot for a penal colony."

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Centauri Dreams sings a swan-song for Kardashev's classification of civilisations. Interesting stuff for space opera thinkers.

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"Some day alien civilizations may pick up television or radio signals from Earth. But does this mean they’re likely to visit us? Danish researcher Rasmus Bjork (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)

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"Located in the cloud-forested eastern slope of the Andes mountains, the ruin is believed to belong to the ancient Chachapoya [...] from about the ninth to the fifteenth century AD."

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"Five seasons of excavations at Ban Non Wat, in Northeast Thailand, have unearthed 470 human burials covering a time span of more than 2,000 years. Earthwatch-supported research [...] gives clues

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"...a key factor in the Drake Equation [...] is the question of whether technological societies have an average lifetime. Do they invariably survive to reach the stars, or do they destroy themsel

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"Archaeologists said Tuesday they have unearthed 22 graves in northern Peru containing a trove of pre-Inca artifacts, including the first "tumi" ceremonial knives ever discovered by arc

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"Imagine our Sun spewing out a flare 100 million times stronger than usual, releasing the energy of 50 trillion atomic bombs. The effect on our planet would be catastrophic." No kidding.

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"If evolution is the correct theory for the emergence of life on Earth, then SETI will be one of the weakest and most dangerous enterprises of mankind." Sober thoughts on SETI at Centauri Dr

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Listen in silence or wave across an empty hallway? Centauri Dreams seeks your opinions on the SETI/METI question.

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"Galactic catastrophism — the idea that certain kinds of cosmic events can destroy life on a periodic basis and prevent the emergence of technological civilizations — comes in a number of variant

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"Severe climate change was the main driver behind the birth of civilisation, a scientist said yesterday." Note for denialists and other loonies - that doesn't mean the current changes are a

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Probably not, but it's an interesting find anyway, if you're into ancient cultures and so on. Link via posthuman Blues...cheers, Mac.

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"At the launch of a new campaign last week to promote the study of history, Stephen Fry made a passionate appeal that we use the gripping narratives of the past to make sense of the world today.&

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However, the Egyptian fella who's worked at Giza says otherwise. There's life in this story yet, methinks, even if only with an angle on the politics of archeology.

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Another potential ancient civilisation remnant, but this time in eastern Europe. Said it before, I'll say it again: 2006, year of the weird.

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Yet another ancient site unearthed...a bumper year for ancient mystery

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I *so* want to go to Guatemala again

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The generation of electric current in places where no other source of light is freely available has of course during the active operations in Prance....

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