FFON. The Frightened Face of Nature.

  • Part 2: Promising planets, Dry worlds, and Water-bears

    Part 2: Promising planets, Dry worlds, and Water-bears

    By Dr Valerie Jeffries FLS Language of Life The  term ‘Earthlife’ acknowledges that all life we know uses the same universal coding system to read its DNA. The way it translates DNA into bodies is amazingly neat, but uses a ‘language’ that’s arisen by chance.  When  humans first made words with meanings, two tribes on opposite continents would…

  • Do the moon landings pose a moral conundrum?

    Do the moon landings pose a moral conundrum?

    We (John and Margaret Cooper) enjoyed reading Simon King’s post: “Maxwell Knight mentions the space race in his unpublished manuscript The Frightened Face of Nature and here’s a poignant quote from the same document: Knight’s point was that man should explore; however, why can’t we do these things without destroying”. We should like to add…