One scientific objection to religion is that the discovery of extraterrestrial life would show our religions are not veridical, with Christianity being most common target. I will first look at a parallel issue, ancient and medieval controversy over antipodes. This raises two problematic Christian doctrines apply equally extraterrestrials: transmission original sin cosmic fall. These issues rais...

Several species of haloarchaea have been shown to be polyploid and thus this trait might be typical for and widespread in haloarchaea. In the present paper, nine different possible evolutionary advantages of polyploidy for haloarchaea are discussed, including low mutation rate, radiation/desiccation resistance, gene redundancy and survival over geological times and at extraterrestrial sites. Ex...

Abstract. This study evaluated the accuracy of seven upscaling methods in simulating daily latent heat flux (LE) from instantaneous values using observations 148 global sites under all sky conditions and at different times during day. Daily atmospheric transmissivity (τ) was used to represent conditions. The results showed that could accurately simulate LE values. mean median Nash–Sutcliffe eff...

Monitoring lightning electromagnetic pulses (sferics) and other terrestrial as well as extraterrestrial transient radiation signals is of considerable interest for practical and theoretical purposes in astroand geophysics as well as meteorology. Managing a continuous flow of data, automisation of the detection and classification process is important. Features based on a combination of wavelet a...

Abstract The question about the stability of certain biomolecules is directly connected to life-detection missions aiming search for past or present life beyond Earth. extreme conditions experienced on extraterrestrial planet surface ( e.g. Mars), characterized by ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, CO 2 -atmosphere reactive species, may destroy hypothetical traces life. In this context, study...

Human exposures to ionizing radiation have been vastly altered by developing technology in the last century. This has been most obvious in the development of radiation generating devices and the utilization of nuclear energy. But even air travel has had its impact on human exposure. Human exposure increases with advancing aircraft technology as a result of the higher operating altitudes reducin...

The current practice for experimentally evaluating the performance of extraterrestrial rovers/rover wheels is to conduct tests on earth on a soil simulant, appropriate to the regolith on the extraterrestrial body of interest. In the tests, the normal load (force) applied by the rover/rover wheel to the soil simulant is set identical to that expected on the extraterrestrial surface, taking into ...