Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Term Paper

Here is the first list of topics, [link] Louis is working in space travel proposals. I am working on "our astrochemical heritage". I have been posting some material that may be useful for this. In particular, I have slides on Yucatan Astronomers, since Luis Felipe Rodriguez, and Arcadio Poveda, have contributed to our understanding of star formation. Their discovery of an explosion in the Orion Nebula, five hundred years ago, may give us a clue on the origin of our solar system. Maybe our Sun was formed near a cluster of stars, and was expelled billion of years ago, to this space we occupy now.

The main thrust in Caselli & Ciccarelli's review is the origin of our chemical complexity, necessary to form Intelligent Life, as we know it. We are far from connecting the Big Bang, to ourselves, but these are necessary steps.

I think, therefore I am

This thought by the French thinker Rene Descartes, may be deeper than he thought.

Today we do not have a lecture, please work on your Term Paper.

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