February 18, 2002

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CNN has an interesting article about how langua ge could mutate on a long space trip. Becasue the travelers would be outside of human contact for so long, they would eventually develop their own dialects, and given enough time, would evolve into a completely different language.

And speaking of space, NASA is working on how to keep alien samples safe from earthly contaminates. The standards for cleaness needed is extraordinary, and everything possible is being done so that we don't contaminate other planets with our bacteria. All this is neccassary so that when (yes, when) we do find evidence of life on other planets, it can't be dismissed as just earthly contamination.

This is a little late for Valentine's Day, but I like it. :)

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