The podClast – episode 8

Published 2009-03-12 by Chris

Episode 8 of the podClast is ready for download. You can grab the mp3 here (37.1 Mb, 40:22), or subscribe through iTunes here. You can subscribe to the podClast RSS feed here. Or you can listen to it right here:

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This week’s episode discusses hidden mountains in Antarctica, bacteria living high atop the Andes, panspermia and extraterrestrial life and more.

Participants (links in brackets are Twitter feeds)

Chris - goodSchist (@yorrike)

Chris –  Highly Allochthonous (@allochthonous)

The Gamburtsevs Mountain Range and Antarctica

The BBC News article “‘Ghost peaks’ mapped under ice” is a nice summary of the story. New Scientist article has additional information in the article “Alpine mountain range revealed beneath Antarctic ice.”

And as always, there’s a little more information at Wikipedia on the GamBurtsevs Mountain Range.

Here’s some information about Lake Vostok.

And you can read about the International Polar Year at Wikipedia.

Extremophile Bacteria at the top of the Andes

Have a read of Science Centric’s Article “Earth’s highest known microbial systems fuelled by volcanic gases.”

NASA’s Kepler Mission

There’s the Wikipedia page on Kepler and the NASA’s official Kepler Mission page too. Plus there’s an example of the mass media misinterpretation from the BBC.

And Venetian resurfacing I was talking about is detailed  in this interview with David Grinspoon “Venus (and Earth) Resurfaced in a Single Catastrophic Event?” and in the paper Catastrophic Resurfacing and Episodic Subduction on Venus from Science Direct. This episodic resurfacing is still up for debate, though, and The Imperial College in London has a counter view.

Exbiology, Panspermia and Planetary Geology

Titan is Saturn’s moon with methane oceans.

Europa is the Jovian moon (beware the obelisk).

You can read about the Dawn Mission at NASA’s official site, or there’s the Wikipedia entry.

My article on Ceres, Dawn and (no) Panspermia (containing information on Ceres, 4-Vesta, the HED meteorites and the Murchison meteorite). And the offending article on The Universe Today.

There’s information about the bacteria on the Moon

Dave’s article on resurrected Eocene yeast and the resulting beer.

The Allan Hills 84001 was the one with the bacteria-looking inclusion in it.

Mars had recent running water and there’s Google Mars to have a look at too.

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Next Episode

We like to have a new episode of the podClast every fortnight, so the next episode will be recorded on Sunday the 22nd of March at 2000 GMT.

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Credit

The intro and exit music was Roots Fi Cool by Burning Babylon.

Text Addresses

The post that accompanies this podcast can be found at http://www.goodschist.com/2009/03/12/the-podclast-episode-8/ or http://is.gd/n2PW and an archive of all  podClasts can be found at http://www.goodschist.com/category/podclast/

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