Recent Posts Tagged With 'extremophiles'

• Poetic Planetary Exploration: The Swamps of Sleethe

  Posted on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 17:02 in poetry, arts, imagination, astrobiology, extremophiles

  Today, I indulged the child in me by exploring other Worlds with child-like eyes through poetry. With bite-sized Exo-poems from Jack Prelutsky, The Swamps of Sleethe is a literary exploration of exoplanetary proportions. It is nicely complemented by ...

• Living Exoplanet Rings

  Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 20:27 in life, saturn, enceladus, extremophiles, exomoon

  An idea came to my mind immediately after I learned that the rings of Saturn are being replenished by ejected material from Enceladus.What if on a distant exoplanetary system, life manages to spark and thrive within the sub-surface ocean of an Encela...

• The Extremophile Zone (EZ)

  Posted on Saturday June 6th, 2009 at 17:10 in web2.0, amateur, astrobiology, seti, extremophiles, habitable zone, science2.0, new worlds mission

  Any point outside the Habitable Zone (HZ) can potentially be an Extremophile Zone (EZ)Judging from the fact that the Habitable Zone (HZ) is such a narrow region around a star or a galaxy, the difficulty in searching for planets and life around such a...

• Exoplants and Habs

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 11:51 in Habs, extremophiles, habitables, exoplant

  There might be a whimsical reason why Exoplants seem to be a typo error of Exoplanets. Extrasolar Plants, or Exoplants would be a likely constituent of habitable exoplanets or habitables (habs). An exoplanet that supports life would likely host an or...

• Mars as an exoplanet

  Posted on Thursday January 15th, 2009 at 22:04 in life, mars, extremophiles

  I know, i know. Mars is not an exoplanet. So I better keep away because this blog is only about exoplanets. But the prospect of life on Mars is irresistible to not think about, lest write about. So let's pretend the Mars is an exoplanet for now so I ...

• Extremophiles increases the Possibility of Life Elsewhere

  Posted on Saturday May 24th, 2008 at 19:32 in extremophiles

  Finding life on extreme conditions on our own planet might gives us a better gauge as to how life might fare on other worlds. The record-breaking discovery of microbes 1.6 kilometers beneath the ocean floor is the latest clue. The microbes are an Arc...

• Other Platforms of Life

  Posted on Sunday April 20th, 2008 at 08:25 in carl sagan, cosmos, extremophiles, water-based, carbon-based

  Imaginary but possible lifeforms on a jupiter-like planet. Photo from page 42 of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.A post at io9 mentions the possibility of life aside from the usual carbon-based or water-based type.I'm reminded of the musings and calculations of ...