Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:30:54 -0400
From: Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] The Times tries its hand at SF
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/science/space/21plan.html

Interesting article in the NY Times about the possibility of life on extrasolar planets. The author even
delves into a little hypothetical description of life in the 'twilight zone' between the light and dark side
oof a tidal locked planet:

""I have begun to imagine a kind of ring world on Gliese 436 b, as this planet is now unpoetically known, a
ddusky narrow scrum of hungry green, a sort of Alaskan summer bog strip crawling with ingenious critters
hhemmed between ice and desert, building their narrow little cities straddling a canal full of
eextraterrestrial bass, with windows pointed sunward, full of clever mirrors."

--
Jim Kling
science writer
Rockville, MD
http://nasw.org/users/jkling