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David Grinspoon

American Scientist

Born: 1959

Earth Future Life Science Think You

Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming

As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now be called 'young adult' novels of adventures in the solar system. David Grinspoon

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What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense be alive? What about an interstellar cloud? Could life exist on such a small or large scale, or move so fast or so slowly that we wouldn't recognize it? Could you have an intelligent virus? David Grinspoon

I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering. David Grinspoon

Best Community Think Thinking Writers Scientific Doing Discovering Very Aware

There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets. David Grinspoon

Other About Something New Involved Missions Being Planets Cool

We can look out on an alien landscape that no one has seen before and find it beautiful. David Grinspoon

Beautiful Alien Seen Before Out Find No-One Look Landscape

Astrobiology is a great point of contact for science outreach. The public is naturally interested in extra-terrestrial life. Astrobiology provides an accessible point of access that leads to deeper questions. David Grinspoon

Life Great Science Point Outreach Contact Leads Access Accessible Provides Questions Interested Public Naturally Deeper

I intend to apply the perspective of astrobiology, which is a deep-time way of looking at life on Earth, towards the question of the Anthropocene. What does the human phenomenon on Earth look like viewed from an interplanetary perspective? David Grinspoon

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It's OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don't want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything about life in the universe. However, we have to be rigorous and careful and honest and logical and scientifically meticulous when we speculate. David Grinspoon

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In environments that are energy-rich but liquid-poor, like near the surface of Titan, natural selection may favor organisms that use their metabolic heat to melt their own watering holes. David Grinspoon

Natural Own Watering Favor Melt Selection Environments Like Surface Heat May Holes Natural Selection Organisms Use Near

When I first went to college, I went into physics, and my goal was to help perfect nuclear fusion so I could solve the energy crisis and global warming. I probably would have done it, too, if I'd stuck to it. David Grinspoon

Physics College First Energy Too Crisis Fusion Would Solve Perfect Could Stuck Global Global Warming Goal Done Warming Help Nuclear

I think a lot of people interested in space exploration tend to hear stories about the great missions, how they work technically, what we learned. But they don't really hear the story of what it takes to get a mission from scratch to the launch pad and into space. David Grinspoon

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We have to learn to become a new kind of entity on this world that has the maturity and the awareness to handle being a global species with the power to change our planet and use that power in a way that is conducive to the kind of global society we want to have. David Grinspoon

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We don't know that Venus had oceans, but there's every reason to believe it did. David Grinspoon

Believe Every Had Know Venus Oceans Did Reason

I'm a strong advocate of new missions to Venus. David Grinspoon

Strong New Missions Venus Advocate

As a young planet, Venus was losing hydrogen rapidly to space. The oceans boiled off, and after some period of time, perhaps 600 million years, there was no surface water. David Grinspoon

Time Water Losing Space Young Rapidly Some Hydrogen Perhaps Period Venus Surface Oceans Years Off After Planet Million Million Years

Earth is going to lose its oceans in the future, just as Venus did in the past. How long planets retain their oceans is a function of distance from the sun, all other things being equal. David Grinspoon

I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the environmental factors that can affect a planet's habitability and how they change over time. David Grinspoon

What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire? David Grinspoon

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