Monthly Archives: September 2022

NASA flies its spacecraft into asteroid in direct hit

Posted on September 29, 2022 by DWN

Web site from my astronomy son, David. This project is SO cool. SO amazing all this could be done (from millions of miles away) Dimorphos: NASA flies its spacecraft into asteroid in direct hit Jonathan Amos Science correspondent @BBCAmoson Twitter … Continue reading →

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Do the JWST Images bebunk the Big Bang Theory? Or Not?

Posted on September 15, 2022 by DWN

In 1931, Monseigneur Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (b. 1894; d. 1966) put forth the idea that there was once a primordial atom which had contained all the matter in the universe. The other support for the Big Bang that … Continue reading →

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Geneticist who unmasked lives of ancient humans wins the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Posted on September 15, 2022 by DWN

Olavi, This year’s prize is a GREAT example of what a Nobel Prize can be (or should be) — or what it has been, at least a few times over past decades [i.e., someone with a CRAZY idea that goes … Continue reading →

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Earliest history of eukaryotic life: Integration of Biology and Geology

Posted on September 14, 2022 by DWN

From time to time, GEITP ponders various aspects of the earliest evolution of Life Forms on Earth. The attached article discusses the early evolution of eukaryotes — which is arguably one of the most important processes in the history of … Continue reading →

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