Antarctica's Annual Melt Equals Water in Lake Tahoe, Study Says
Bloomberg -
March 2 (Bloomberg) -- Antarctica is melting at an annual rate equal to dumping Lake Tahoe into the ocean, causing global seawater to rise as much as 0.6 millimeters (0.02 inches) a year, according to a study published by Science. ...
Schedule to Complete Space Station Is Advanced
New York Times -
WASHINGTON, March 2 — Partners in the International Space Station agreed Thursday to launch European and Japanese components earlier than originally planned to ensure they were functioning by 2010, when the orbiting space laboratory is to be fully ...
Performing good deeds may be ingrained
Baltimore Sun -
By Douglas Birch. We give up bus seats to the elderly, open the door for pregnant strangers and shovel snow off our neighbors' sidewalks. And the only payoff, it seems, is the warm glow from knowing we've done a good deed. ...
To suggest that there is any genetic predisposition to insuring that one's fellow astronauts hurry up and get off the planet and live in space as the planet's land masses begin to submerge, might seem a bit of a stretch, but still, when put into just the right perspective, we do, as a species, tend to only look out for our own kind, our own close "us" and care little for "them." Gee do you think Randian's would accept the notion that human beings just feel good sharing and helping and caring, you know doing collaborative, cooperative associating rather than generating selfish profits? Or would Randian's and Straussian's and other objectivist libertarian types insist that only the elites deserve the power they have to decide, especially with their wealth and property, who lives and dies, what species survives or doesn't?
