Globe-World-Planet
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/globe-world-planet

Just as valuable work has been done, some in the wake of Lefebvre, distinguishing between the overlapping yet non-congruent senses of ‘city’, ‘urban’ and ‘urbanisation’, so too should we seek to some clarification between ‘world’, ‘globe’ and ‘planet’.

State, Space, World — University of Minnesota Press
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/state-space-world

start with Lefebvre not Spivak: where proletarian struggles to produce and appropriate social space assume a planetary dimension (as possible catastrophe but also as a new horizon of political possibility)

mineral sovereignty

2018 On mineral sovereignty: towards a political theory of geological power
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325607784_On_mineral_sovereignty_towards_a_political_theory_of_geological_power_-_Energy_Research_Social_Science

The Anthropocene thesis invokes the ‘enormous geological power’ of industrialism: driven by
hydrocarbon combustion, manifest in planetary heating. Yet political theory has proceeded as if the
organisation of geological power were incidental to history. Geological agency, we submit, is
precisely what mining industries are organised to achieve, materially and politically.

We propose mineral sovereignty as a term of method to analyse ‘geological power’ in its legible, institutional and
intentional forms. We deploy it to excavate an entwined genealogy of state and corporation: one
evident in the constitutional (or extra-parliamentary) technologies of sovereignty and property that
order the appropriation and distribution of mineral wealth. Through three provocations, we ‘stratify’
the concept of sovereignty: in the ‘royal metals’ of early modern states; in the rise of neoliberalism as
a re-privatisation of mineral-energy infrastructures against the claims of social democracy; and in
anticipatory extensions of mineral sovereignty to outer space. Mineral sovereignty discloses
methodological problems for energy and climate policy. Pre-analytical distinctions between public
law and the private power of fossil capital imply a hierarchy and separation that cannot be presumed,
but must be achieved. We must ‘leave it in the ground’: this requires the re-assertion of democratic
control over the mineral estate.

dl: https://cssn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/WalkerJohnsonOnMineralSovereigntyPreprintDraft.pdf

2021 Neopanspermia–Evidence That Life Continuously Arrives at the Earth from Space
http://www.isaacpub.org/images/PaperPDF/AdAp_100157_2021022423281867117.pdf

We discuss the development of the theory of panspermia and show how, over the past decade, we have used balloon-borne samplers (lofted to heights approaching 30km) to isolate unusual Biological Entities (BEs) which, we maintain, are continuously arriving at the Earth from space. These BEs are carbon-based, show bilateral symmetry, contain DNA and are in the range 10-40 micrometres in dimension. Their sizes are an order of magnitude higher than particles (including bacteria and viruses) of terrestrial origin that are normally recovered in the stratosphere. The fact that Earth-organisms (e.g. pollen grains, grass-shards and fungal spores) have not been found in our samples provides additional evidence that the isolated BEs originate from space and are of extraterrestrial provenance. We propose that such incoming microorganisms led to the emergence of life on the primitive Earth between 3.83 and 4 billion years ago and thereafter have continuously contributed to its evolution.

We Have Even More Evidence Life's Building Blocks Came to Earth From Space : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-have-even-more-evidence-life-s-building-blocks-arrived-on-earth-from-space

Identifying the wide diversity of extraterrestrial purine and pyrimidine nucleobases in carbonaceous meteorites | Nature Communications
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29612-x

Here we report the detection of nucleobases in three carbonaceous meteorites using state-of-the-art analytical techniques optimized for small-scale quantification of nucleobases down to the range of parts per trillion (ppt). In addition to previously detected purine nucleobases in meteorites such as guanine and adenine, we identify various pyrimidine nucleobases such as cytosine, uracil, and thymine, and their structural isomers such as isocytosine, imidazole-4-carboxylic acid, and 6-methyluracil, respectively. Given the similarity in the molecular distribution of pyrimidines in meteorites and those in photon-processed interstellar ice analogues, some of these derivatives could have been generated by photochemical reactions prevailing in the interstellar medium and later incorporated into asteroids during solar system formation. This study demonstrates that a diversity of meteoritic nucleobases could serve as building blocks of DNA and RNA on the early Earth.

Chandra Wickramasinghe - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Wickramasinghe

The Hoyle–Wickramasinghe model of panspermia include the assumptions that dormant viruses and desiccated DNA and RNA can survive unprotected in space;[32] that small bodies such as asteroids and comets can protect the "seeds of life", including DNA and RNA,[33][34][35] living, fossilized, or dormant life, cellular[36][37] or non-cellular;[33][34][35][36][38][39][40][41] and that the collisions of asteroids, comets, and moons have the potential to spread these "seeds of life" throughout an individual star system and then onward to others.[38][41] The most contentious issue around the Hoyle–Wickramasinghe model of the panspermia hypothesis is the corollary of their first two propositions that viruses and bacteria continue to enter the Earth's atmosphere from space, and are hence responsible for many major epidemics throughout history.[42][43][44]

Towards the end of their collaboration, Wickramasinghe and Hoyle hypothesised that abiogenesis occurred close to the Galactic Center before panspermia carried life throughout the Milky Way,[45] and stated a belief that such a process could occur in many galaxies throughout the Universe.[46][47]

Library Genesis: Jeremy Walker - More Heat than Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy, and Economics
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=937725BFE61E42944D10504D6015ADE1

This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene. Reconstructing their constitution as separate sciences in the era of fossil-fuelled industrial capitalism, the book offers an explanation of how the ecological sciences have moved from a position of critical collision with mainstream economics in the 1970s, to one of collusion with the project of permanent growth, in and through the thermal crisis of the biosphere.

‘It felt like a funeral’: William Shatner reflects on voyage to space | William Shatner | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/oct/11/it-felt-like-a-funeral-william-shatner-reflects-on-voyage-to-space

“Everything I had thought was wrong. Everything I had expected to see was wrong,” he wrote. “I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things – that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe.”

The Canadian, who captivated the world in his role as Captain James Kirk of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise, broke down in tears upon landing, describing having had “the most profound experience I can imagine”. “I hope I never recover from this,” he said at the time. “I’m so filled with emotion about what just happened. It’s extraordinary, extraordinary

But a year after touching down back to Earth, Shatner wrote in the excerpt: “I discovered that the beauty isn’t out there, it’s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound.”

“It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness.

“Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna … things that took 5bn years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread.

“My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.”

Mars ‘Very Likely’ Hosted Subterranean Alien Life, And May Still, Scientists Say
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkewq/mars-very-likely-hosted-subterranean-alien-life-and-may-still-scientists-say

Early Mars habitability and global cooling by H2-based methanogens | Nature Astronomy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01786-w

During the Noachian, Mars’ crust may have provided a favourable environment for microbial life1,2. The porous brine-saturated regolith3,4,5 would have created a physical space sheltered from ultraviolet and cosmic radiation and provided a solvent, whereas the below-ground temperature2 and diffusion6,7 of a dense, reduced atmosphere8,9 may have supported simple microbial organisms that consumed H2 and CO2 as energy and carbon sources and produced methane as a waste. On Earth, hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis was among the earliest metabolisms10,11, but its viability on early Mars has never been quantitatively evaluated. Here we present a probabilistic assessment of Mars’ Noachian habitability to H2-based methanogens and quantify their biological feedback on Mars’ atmosphere and climate. We find that subsurface habitability was very likely, and limited mainly by the extent of surface ice coverage. Biomass productivity could have been as high as in the early Earth’s ocean. However, the predicted atmospheric composition shift caused by methanogenesis would have triggered a global cooling event, ending potential early warm conditions, compromising surface habitability and forcing the biosphere deep into the Martian crust. Spatial projections of our predictions point to lowland sites at low-to-medium latitudes as good candidates to uncover traces of this early life at or near the surface.

A New Philosophy Of Planetary Computation
https://www.noemamag.com/a-new-philosophy-of-planetary-computation/

The Earth is in the process of growing a planetary-scale technostructure of computation — an almost inconceivably vast and complex interlocking system (or system of systems) of sensors, satellites, cables, communications protocols and software. The development of this structure reveals and deepens our fundamental condition of planetarity — the techno-mediated self-awareness of the inescapability of our embeddedness in an Earth-spanning biogeochemical system that is undergoing severe disruptions from the relative stability of the previous ten millennia. This system is both an evolving physical and empirical fact and, perhaps even more importantly, a radical philosophical event — one that is at once forcing us to face up to how differently we will have to live, and enabling us, in practice, to live differently.

tady jeden originalni pohled z dalky :)

Overview SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic as January-February 2022: Likely Cometary Origin, Global Spread, Prospects for Future Vaccine Efficacy
https://researchopenworld.com/overview-sars-cov-2-pandemic-as-january-february-2022-likely-cometary-origin-global-spread-prospects-for-future-vaccine-efficacy/

As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is nearing its eventual end we focus on what we believe are two key omissions from the mainstream scientific literature and which have significant implications for how mankind manages the next global pandemic. We therefore review data, observations, analyses and conclusions from our series of papers published through 2020 and 2021 on its likely cometary origin and global spread. We also revisit our long held understanding of the superior effectiveness of intra-nasal vaccines against respiratory tract pathogens that involve induction of dimeric secretory IgA antibodies. While these two oversights seem disparate, together they provide us with new insights into our collective awareness of how we might view and address the next global pandemic. We begin with our hypothesis of the likely cometary origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus via a bolide strike in the stratosphere on the night of October 11 2019 on the 40o N line over Jilin in NE China. Further global spread most likely occurred via prevailing wind systems transporting both the pristine cometary virus followed by continuing strikes from the same primary source as well as prior human-passaged virus transmitted by person to person spread and through contaminated dust in global wind systems. We also include a discussion of our prior work on data relating to vaccine protective efficacy.

Experiments to prove continuing microbial ingress from Space to Earth - PMC
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7340390/

If both the space incident microorganisms and terrestrial microbes originate from disconnected pieces of a single cosmic biosphere (Earth and space) their genetic difference may well turn out to be subtle and even difficult to detect. Indeed, an ISRO sponsored balloon flight into the stratosphere in 2006 recovered three new bacterial species that are genetically similar (80% homologous) to known terrestrial species but sufficiently different to be classified as different species (Shivaji, Chaturvedi, Begum, et al., 2009). The first of the new species recovered from 41 km was named Janibacter hoylei, after Fred Hoyle.

To conclude, we would remark that signs of imminent change—a major paradigm shift—have come from many directions and such a paradigm shift is now unavoidable (Steele et al., 2018, Steele et al., 2019). The crucial data to clinch this shift must come from the results of experiments such as we have discussed here involving the recovery of microbes of space origin, and by establishing such an origin beyond a shadow of doubt. In this way we would conclude that the evolution of life takes place not just within a closed biosphere on our minuscule planet Earth but extends over a vast and connected volume of the cosmos.

2015 Biological Entities Isolated from Two Stratosphere Launches-Continued Evidence for a Space Origin
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274956493_Biological_Entities_Isolated_from_Two_Stratosphere_Launches-Continued_Evidence_for_a_Space_Origin

Here, we provide images of a variety of biological entities which we have sampled from the stratosphere at heights of between 23-25 Km. The biological entities have unusual morphology and are generally not representatives of known terrestrial organisms. Analysis using EDX shows that all of the BEs contain only C and O and are not associated on the sampling stubs with pollen, grass or other terrestrial organisms. Images are provided of some of the biological entities which were sampled from our first and third successful sampling trips, a second trip isolated inorganic micrometeorites, but not biological entities. We conclude that the evidence points to a space origin for these stratosphere-derived biological entities.

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A titanium-vanadium sphere with both biology-like filaments on outside and mucoid material oozing out of sphere EDX at C and O only.

TADEAS:

Nasa says Dart mission succeeded in shifting asteroid’s orbit | Nasa | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/11/nasa-dart-spacecraft-asteroid-successful

TADEAS: bude urcite zajimavy sledovat, jestli si nektere AI vynaleznou pain and pleasure (k tomu Lexovu navrhu, ze vedomi by slo detekovat skrz indicie ze je zazivano utrpeni). zatim jsem to pochopila tak, ze v otazkach kolem AI je vedomi druhotny, ze to neni dulezity, inteligence muze fungovat bez toho i s tim, nemeni to az tak na tech existencialnich otazkach co to zpusobi ve svete