Unfair reactions on parade

[...] two scientists at the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology say microbes from Venus could actually be blown into the Earth's atmosphere by solar winds.

That would be microbes living in a zone about 50 km above the surface of Venus, where the conditions are not nearly as hostile to life as down on the surface.

The problem is that I got to a paragraph that read Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe and Dr Janaki Wickramasinghe claim Venus's clouds contain chemicals that are consistent with the presence of micro organisms.

And while much of Chandra Wickramasinghe's work might be perfectly acceptable, he is the former student of and collaborator with Sir Fred Hoyle during what I like to think of as Sir Fred's flamboyantly eccentric phase. This sadly does not lend his research an air of respectability in my eyes.

Is Janaki Wickramasinghe Chandra's daughter or grand-daughter?

Nicked from Jay Lake.

Unfair reactions on parade

[...] two scientists at the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology say microbes from Venus could actually be blown into the Earth's atmosphere by solar winds.

That would be microbes living in a zone about 50 km above the surface of Venus, where the conditions are not nearly as hostile to life as down on the surface.

The problem is that I got to a paragraph that read Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe and Dr Janaki Wickramasinghe claim Venus's clouds contain chemicals that are consistent with the presence of micro organisms.

And while much of Chandra Wickramasinghe's work might be perfectly acceptable, he is the former student of and collaborator with Sir Fred Hoyle during what I like to think of as Sir Fred's flamboyantly eccentric phase. This sadly does not lend his research an air of respectability in my eyes.

Is Janaki Wickramasinghe Chandra's daughter or grand-daughter?

Nicked from Jay Lake.

Unfair reactions on parade

[...] two scientists at the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology say microbes from Venus could actually be blown into the Earth's atmosphere by solar winds.

That would be microbes living in a zone about 50 km above the surface of Venus, where the conditions are not nearly as hostile to life as down on the surface.

The problem is that I got to a paragraph that read Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe and Dr Janaki Wickramasinghe claim Venus's clouds contain chemicals that are consistent with the presence of micro organisms.

And while much of Chandra Wickramasinghe's work might be perfectly acceptable, he is the former student of and collaborator with Sir Fred Hoyle during what I like to think of as Sir Fred's flamboyantly eccentric phase. This sadly does not lend his research an air of respectability in my eyes.

Is Janaki Wickramasinghe Chandra's daughter or grand-daughter?

Nicked from Jay Lake.

Conservative values on parade

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - An unemployed man accused of opening fire with a shotgun and killing two people at a Unitarian church apparently targeted the congregation out of hatred for its liberal social policies, police said Monday.

Conservative values on parade

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - An unemployed man accused of opening fire with a shotgun and killing two people at a Unitarian church apparently targeted the congregation out of hatred for its liberal social policies, police said Monday.

Conservative values on parade

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - An unemployed man accused of opening fire with a shotgun and killing two people at a Unitarian church apparently targeted the congregation out of hatred for its liberal social policies, police said Monday.