http://thealienworld.com An effort to understand the real world! Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:17:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thealienworld.com/2011/09/10/we-are-still-new/ http://thealienworld.com/2011/09/10/we-are-still-new/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:23:21 +0000 Nitin http://thealienworld.com/?p=1067 4.5 billion years sounds a lot to me, but Earth is  relatively a newer planet. For last 4 billion years there exists some form of life here, majorly green-blue algae, but what I failed to understand is that how diverse life (multi-cell) only evolved some 545 million year ago. Scientist call this event as Cambrian [...]

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]]> http://thealienworld.com/2010/05/27/males-dont-have-bloodline-lineage/feed/ 0 http://thealienworld.com/2009/11/13/chaos-in-teleportation/ http://thealienworld.com/2009/11/13/chaos-in-teleportation/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:51:51 +0000 Nitin http://alienworld.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/chaos-in-teleportation/ I was sitting with my friend, P, today after lunch, having a smoke and appreciating the beautiful weather. It is very rear in Hyderabad to have a sunny sky and still not hot. As with all good things in life, this was also short lived. As usual we blamed it on global warming (the most [...]

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