{"id":1792,"date":"2011-04-25T22:40:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T05:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2017-04-16T22:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T05:27:41","slug":"cosmic-connection-how-astronomical-events-impact-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/cosmic-connection-how-astronomical-events-impact-life-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Connection: How Astronomical Events Impact Life on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I remarked in my <a title=\"The Cosmic Connection\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1591026679\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=lifeboatfound-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=1591026679\" target=\"_blank\">heartfelt endorsement<\/a> for astronomer Jeff Kanipe\u2019s fantastic book at <a title=\"The Cosmic Connection\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1591026679\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=lifeboatfound-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=1591026679\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a><\/a>, Dobzhansky noted,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One can argue that all environments are hostile, and that death and extinction are probable events, while survival is improbable. Just how life has managed to overcome this improbability is a problem which many biologists find challenging and fascinating. In my opinion, this problem may well be used as the framework on which to build the teaching of biology [1].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Building upon profound observations along these lines, readers may find that Kanipe offers some poetically illustrated support for my conjecture that this problem may well be used as the framework on which to build the teaching of <em>every<\/em> science \u2014 from biology to cosmology to economics to political science.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"On the Origin of Mass Extinctions:  Darwin's Nontrivial Error\" href=\"http:\/\/mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de\/20193\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>On the Origin of Mass Extinctions: Darwin\u2019s Nontrivial Error<\/em><\/a> offers a few choice previews from this beautiful, optimistic, and most highly recommended book!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lifeboat Foundation Bio\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/ex\/bios.matt.funk\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Funk, FLS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[1]. DOBZHANSK Y, T. (1964). Biology, Molecular and Organismic. Amer Zool 4:443\u2013452.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I remarked in my heartfelt endorsement for astronomer Jeff Kanipe\u2019s fantastic book at Amazon.com, Dobzhansky noted, One can argue that all environments are hostile, and that death and extinction are probable events, while survival is improbable. Just how life has managed to overcome this improbability is a problem which many biologists find challenging and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51962,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/51962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}