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(Message started by: Jasmyn on Feb 19^th, 2006, 5:42pm)

Title: Where are you gonna live?
Post by Jasmyn on Feb 19^th, 2006, 5:42pm

Just read this in the news:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1161231,00.html

And according to a study that sent tremors through the scientific community last week, that is exactly what seems to be happening in Greenland. Glaciers that flow toward the ocean in the southern half of that enormous frozen island are among the world's fastest moving, and their massive outpouring of ice now contributes fully a sixth of the annual rise in sea level. According to a study in the current issue of Science, they have nearly doubled their rate of flow over the past five years, to about 8 miles a year, dumping icebergs and melthingyer into the already rising ocean faster than anyone expected

At least it seems that we'll have some options:

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/071c8688-a178-11da-9ca4-0000779e2340.html

Shortlist drawn up of stars likely to have habitable planets
By Clive Cookson in St Louis
Published: February 19 2006 19:28 | Last updated: February 19 2006 19:28

Astronomers have drawn up a shortlist of the stars most likely to have habitable planets. They are the prime candidates for detecting signals with the first radio telescope designed specially to find extraterrestrial intelligence elsewhere in the universe.

No more wishing upon a star ;)

Title: Re: Where are you gonna live?
Post by Opus on Feb 19^th, 2006, 8:51pm

40 feet, I guess I am safe at 1015feet above sea level.

While looking for that I found another interesting page about where I live (http://www.city-data.com/city/Guilford-New-York.html)

Title: Re: Where are you gonna live?
Post by Kevin_M on Feb 19^th, 2006, 9:25pm

These are the guys on top the identifying life thing.

http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/library/images/home_banner.jpg

Introduction

Astrobiology is devoted to the scientific study of life in the universe - its origin, evolution, distribution, and future. This multidisciplinary field brings together the physical and biological sciences to address some of the most fundamental questions of the natural world: How do living systems emerge? How do habitable worlds form and how do they evolve? Does life exist on worlds other than Earth? How could terrestrial life potentially survive and adapt beyond our home planet?

Scientists now realize that the origin and evolution of life itself cannot be fully understood unless viewed from a larger perspective than just our own Earth. Biologists are working with astronomers to describe the formation of life's chemical precursors, to discover new planets, and to determine their habitability; with chemists to understand the transition from molecular interaction to life itself; with geologists to search for evidence of water and key minerals on other planets; with paleontologists and evolutionary molecular biologists to look for and comprehend the earliest forms of life, as well as with climatologists, planetary scientists, and researchers from nearly every field of science.

In 1998 NASA established the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) as one element of its research program in astrobiology. The NAI is currently composed of 16 Lead Teams, which together represent over 700 investigators across the United States, and it has international partnerships with astrobiology research organizations around the world.

NAI Mission

The mission of astrobiology is to study the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life on Earth and in the Universe.

Astrobiology shares with other space related science programs a broad range of research interests. Astrobiology encompasses the understanding of biology as a planetary phenomenon. This includes how planetary processes give rise to life, how they sustain or inhibit life, and how life can emerge as an important planetary process; how astrophysical processes give rise to planets elsewhere, what the actual distribution of planets is, and whether there are habitable planets outside of our solar system; a determination of whether life exists elsewhere and how to search for and identify it; what the ultimate environmental limits of life are, whether Earth's biota represent only a subset of the full diversity of life, and the future of Earth's biota in space.

The mission of the NASA Astrobiology Institute is to further our understanding of these profound questions by:

carrying out, supporting and catalyzing collaborative interdisciplinary research;
training the next generation of astrobiology researchers;
providing scientific and technical leadership on astrobiology investigations for current and future space missions;
exploring new approaches using modern information technology to conduct interdisciplinary and collaborative research amongst widely-distributed investigators;
supporting outreach by providing scientific content for K-12 education programs, teaching undergraduate classes, and communicating directly with the public.

Title: Re: Where are you gonna live?
Post by Jasmyn on Feb 20^th, 2006, 4:09am

Yip Paul, it might take a few hundred years before you have to move. You are slap bang right in the middle Cyril. I'm next to the sea, maybe we should start inhabiting the sea, grow gills and webbed feet. Time to evolve again.

Kevin it is really interesting to know that there are people investigating our future possibilities. We see ourselves and our Earth as such an unique entity but no Earth is an island. We know so little yet but with the way technology advances we should have more understanding of life itself in a few years. This is very exciting stuff. Due to all these people at NASA and NAI, we do not need wars anymore for Industrial/Technological Revolutions.

Title: Re: Where are you gonna live?
Post by MJ on Feb 20^th, 2006, 7:20am

When the oceans rise The childs game of "king of the hill" will have new meaning.

Title: Re: Where are you gonna live?
Post by Melissa on Feb 20^th, 2006, 8:59am

I'm staying right here in Wisconsin. We're at about 1170 feet above sea level and the part that I live in was permafrost free during the last ice age.

Yup, I love Wisconsin!!! ;;D

Title: Re: Where are you gonna live?
Post by pattik on Feb 20^th, 2006, 9:47am

on 02/20/06 at 08:59:44, Melissa wrote:

Yup, I love Wisconsin!!! ;;D

Yep, me too. We know ALL about glaciers here.....been there done that a bunch of times. Glaciers are part of what made our state so pretty. Bring em on!
;;D

Title: Re: Where are you gonna live?
Post by chewy on Feb 20^th, 2006, 10:00am

I'll go pitch a tent upon Bunker Hill.

Hope I have better luck than the last bunch of guys who tried that.

Title: Re: Where are you gonna live?
Post by Ghost on Feb 20^th, 2006, 11:02am

WWFSMD?

;;D ;;D ;;D [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: Where are you gonna live?
Post by Charlie on Feb 20^th, 2006, 2:14pm

New Yorkers like to tell people about our hometowns, it looks like. I live something close to 200 miles west of Opus:

http://www.city-data.com/city/Jamestown-New-York.html

Exciting............ http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/sleepy.gif

Charlie

Title: Re: Where are you gonna live?
Post by Lizzie2 on Feb 20^th, 2006, 2:41pm

I like that city-data.com website! Finding out some neat things about the town I live in as well as the town my parents live in...I spend almost equal time in both, I think! :) Either way, between the two towns, I've got only 250-325 feet above sea level about!

Neat story about water rising....

I used to live in a small fishing village town in northern Ohio called Vermilion. We moved to Huron St in 1989 and lived directly across the street from Lake Erie - literally could see the lake from my bedroom window. There were a row of houses on the other side of the street, and the Great Lakes Historical Society and Maritime Museum plus the Vermilion Lighthouse (the latter of which, my dad helped build) were also between our house and the lake.

So anyways...when we moved to our house, our neighbors told us that Huron St wasn't always the last street before Lake Erie. There was actually a whole other street after ours and the lake had risen up and swallowed the whole street - houses and all!!! Not sure of the year or if this was a sudden thing or gradual.... at any rate, it didn't sit well with my mom!!!

I remember learning how to sail the JY's on the lake and practically capsizing a few times by just stopping short of hitting the "hidden" pier lying right shallow under the water. Another remnant of the rest of my town before the Lake swallowed it up!!

So yeah...if I still lived there, I'd probably be out with a ruler trying to figure out how long it would be before I'd be living in a houseboat. hehe

Carrie :)

Title: Re: Where are you gonna live?
Post by Jasmyn on Feb 20^th, 2006, 3:08pm

Charlie my friend, you're too close to the water, you'll have to move or take up swimming as a profession ;)

Carrie, I like the idea of houseboats. Just think you can sit on your stoep(porch) and catch your dinner and what a view. 8)

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Title: Re: Where are you gonna live?
Post by Charlie on Feb 20^th, 2006, 3:57pm

Quote:

I used to live in a small fishing village town in northern Ohio called Vermilion

I've been through and by Vermilion a couple of times. Lake Erie is serious stuff around there. http://smaylik.by.ru/i/19.gif

Charlie