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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Gaia philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Gaia philosophy (named after Gaia, the Greek goddess of the Earth) is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment – to make it more suitable for life.
		While there were a number of precursors to Gaia theory, the first scientific form of this idea was proposed as the Gaia Hypothesis by James Lovelock, a UK chemist, in 1970.
		The Gaia hypothesis deals with the concept of homeostasis, and claim the resident life forms of a host planet coupled with their environment have acted and act as a single, self-regulating system.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Gaia_philosophy.html (1758 words)

	Gaia probe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaia is an astrometry space mission, and a successor to the ESA Hipparcos mission.
		Its objectives comprise (a) astrometric (or positional) measurements, determining the positions, distances, and annual proper motions of stars with an accuracy of about 20 µas (microarcsecond) at 15 mag, and 200 µas at 20 mag; (b) photometric measurements, providing multi-colour multi-epoch observations of each detected object; and (c) radial velocity measurements.
		Gaia will create an extremely precise three-dimensional map of stars throughout our Milky Way galaxy and beyond, and map their motions which encode the origin and subsequent evolution of the Milky Way.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaia_probe (279 words)

	Gaia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaia philosophy, a set of philosophical views based on Gaia theory and the concept of a "living planet".
		Gaia probe, a space astronomy mission due for launch in 2011 by the European Space Agency.
		Gaia (Asimov), a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series and where all animals, plants, and even inanimate matter are telepathically connected, forming a single sentient planet-wide entity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaia (476 words)

	ESA - Space Science - Gaia overview
		Gaia is a mission that will conduct a census of one thousand million stars in our Galaxy.
		Gaia's expected scientific harvest is of almost inconceivable extent and implication.
		Gaia is expected to communicate with Earth for, on average, eight-hours every day.
	www.esa.int /esaSC/120377_index_0_m.html (1447 words)

	Gaia
		Gaia (formerly GAIA for Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics, due to technology change, the transscription is no longer true) will survey more than one billion stars, including many of the closest stars to the Sun.
		Gaia is a single spacecraft, consisting of three telescopes that will constantly sweep the sky, recording every visible celestial object that crosses its lines of sight.
		The Gaia payload comprises two `Astro' (astrometric) telescopes with a common focal plane, and a `Spectro' telescope comprising a radial velocity spectrograph and a medium-band photometer.
	www.skyrocket.de /space/doc_sdat/gaia.htm (741 words)

	gaia
		The Gaia hypothesis attempts to prove that the air, waters, rock, and life on Earth are all interconnected.
		This postulates that the physical and chemical condition of the surface of the Earth, of the atmosphere, and of the oceans has been and is actively made fit and comfortable by the presence of life itself.
		By 1973, they had refined the Gaia hypothesis in publications of Tellus and Icarus to be "the notion of the biosphere as an adaptive control system that can maintain the Earth in homeostasis." (Lovelock 1990).
	www.geo.utep.edu /pub/ortega/gaia.html (2353 words)

	planet.htm
		Cronus, the son of Uranus and Gaia and the youngest of the twelve Titans.
		It is written that Uranus, who in one version, hid his children away in the bowels of the earth (Tartarus) as he was aghast at the sight of them, in reality he was fearful of their great strength and power.
		Gaia found her offspring uncomfortable and also painful and when she found the discomfort too much to bear she hatched a plan, which was to end the passions of Uranus, so no more offspring could be produced and that would be the ending of her hurt.
	www.islavista.goleta.k12.ca.us /0203/rm24/jeffw/planet.htm.htm (1705 words)

	ProgressiveHistorians :: The Blogosphere Gaia Hypothesis
		Gaia, as we shall see, has continuity with the past back to the origins of life, and in the future as long as life persists.
		Gaia, as a total planetary being, has properties that are not necesarily discernable by just knowing individual species or populations of organisms living together...
		Is the idea of Gaia only a romantic and dramatized description of the terrestrial biosphere and its effects, or is there a planetary being, whose life cycle must be counted in the billions of years, which spawns these evolving life forms to suit the purpose of its being.
	www.progressivehistorians.com /showDiary.do?diaryId=251 (1339 words)

	Goddess Worship
		Mother Earth, or Gaia, as the goddess is known in occult circles, is an evolving being, as is all of nature.
		Probe Ministries is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to reclaim the primacy of Christian thought and values in Western culture through media, education, and literature.
		In addition, Probe acts as a clearing house, communicating the results of its research to the church and society at large.
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/probe/docs/goddess.html (2689 words)

	Pagan News - Pagan News & Information
		Gaia saved Zeus, her grandson, from being swallowed by Cronus, who had been informed that one of his children would depose him, and so to get rid of his children he had swallowed them.
		Gaia theory is a group of scientific theories about how life on Earth may regulate the planets biosphere to make it more hospitable to life.
		Gaia is the name of a proposed space probe, set to launch in 2010 by the European Space Agency.
	www.pagannews.com /cgi-bin/gods3.pl?Gaia/Tellus (474 words)

	Goldsmith: Gaia and evolution.
		Gaia has, in effect, created herself, not in a random manner but in a goal-directed manner since the system is highly stable and is capable of maintaining its stability in the face of internal and external challenges.
		It is, in fact, a cybernetic system, and for this to be possible, Gaia must display considerable order, indeed, she must be seen as a vast co-operative enterprise,very much as nature was seen by the 'natural theologists' of the 19th century.
		Instead, Gaia must be seen, as Lovelock sees her, as a vast co-operative enterprise geared to the maintenance of its overall structure in the face of change.
	www.edwardgoldsmith.com /page48.html (4867 words)

	ESA Portal - Expanding Frontiers - Mapping the Galaxy, and watching our backyard
		Gaia, a spacecraft which will carry two of the most sensitive cameras ever made, is due to be launched in 2010.
		It will take five years to detect such a vast quantity of objects, some of which are incredibly faint, and another three years to plot them all in a giant three-dimensional computerised model that shows not only their current position, but their direction of motion, colour and even their composition.
		Their detection is a by-product of the main goal of Gaia which is to precisely measure the location, motion and composition of several millions of stars in our Galaxy.
	www.esa.int /esaCP/SEMNXD25WVD_Expanding_0.html (507 words)

	THE GAIA HYPOTHESIS: IMPLICATIONS FOR A CHRISTIAN POLITICAL THEOLOGY OF THE ENVIRONMENT
		Gaia is significant because it fuses scientific insight and religious imagination in a potentially energizing and transformative way, challenging persons across a broad spectrum of disciplines to deal in an integrative fashion with the ecological crisis.
		To probe these questions, Lovelock examined what sustained life on Earth, and, arguing from his strength as an atmospheric chemist, found his answer in the composition of the Earth's atmosphere, with its delicate balance of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, methane, and traces of other elements.
		For Thomas Berry, a Passionist priest and "geologian," the wellsprings of the Gaia theory are part of a continuum through which a new sense of the sacredness of the cosmos is emanating from modern science.
	www.crosscurrents.org /Gaia.htm (5505 words)

	Class 4 probe - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		Class-4 probes were also used that year by the USS Enterprise-D to monitor the formation of a new star in the Detrian system.
		In 2372, a class-4 probe was proposed to be used to penetrate an artificial wormhole to prove it were stable enough for space travel.
		Later that year, a class-4 probe was used to transmit a location signal, as well as several farewell recording from the crew of the Defiant, after being trapped behind an energy barrier surrounding the planet Gaia.
	memory-alpha.org /en/index.php?title=Class-4_probe&printable=yes (246 words)

	Probe Set To Dial 1-800-ENTANGLEMENT
		The probe the researchers are building is a transistor with an active channel measuring just a few billionths of meter across.
		The researchers hope that when the electron "tunnels" (winks out of existence in one place and appears in another), they can establish a quantum critical state in the electrodes where the particle is trapped.
		The new probe should permit the physicists to introduce competition between two quantum effects - magnetic quantum entanglement and coupling with spin waves.
	www.scienceagogo.com /news/20051112190942data_trunc_sys.shtml (938 words)

	Gaia Summary
		GAIA theory was first proposed by the English scientist James Lovelock in 1979 to explain how and why, as life appeared on the planet and grew abundant, its evolution and the earth's evolution merged into a single dynamic system he called Gaia.
		Gaia is thus not only an attempt to specify a unifying framework for the operation of the entire earth system, but also an explicit critique of the existing organization of knowledge inquiry.
		Gaia has had little effect on research agendas, however, and the number of working scientists willing to be associated with the hypothesis is small—perhaps less than a dozen.
	www.bookrags.com /Gaia (3042 words)

	Part One
		Co-evolutionary Gaia asserts that the biota influence their abiotic environment, and that the environment in turn influences the evolution of the biota by Darwinian process.
		The Gaia Sutra combines Lovelock, Bateson, and Chalmers and proclaims a planetary Gaia Mind a complex system system that meets Bateson's criteria for mind, born of the One Mind that is the ground of all being.
		Since the nature of the Gaia Mind is different from the nature of the human mind, it is reasonable to suppose that the nature of Gaia consciousness is different from that of human consciousness.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/6394/one.html (5552 words)

	Qwika - European Space Agency
		The second category has many parallels to NASA's plans and constitutes of astronomy-space missions such as the Planck probe studying the cosmic microwave background (2007), the Herschel space observatory (2006), Corot that will be a milestone in the search for exoplanets and is due to launch in June 2006 or the Darwin interferometer.
		It will involve the first time a probe will return of samples from another planet, making it necessary to construct an ascent module that is capable of starting into Mars orbit and dock with the original probe.
		Venus Express — a space probe to Venus which was launched in Nov 2005.
	wikipedia.qwika.com /wiki/ESA (5284 words)

	Observer \| Asteroid trackers plan to avert Armageddon
		The probe - the most accurate telescope ever built - would track objects a kilometre or more in diameter, allowing scientists to predict their path years before their collision with our planet.
		Due to be launched by an Ariane 5 rocket in 2009, Gaia is short-listed for £350 million of Esa funding, but is in competition with a proposed probe to Mercury.
		Gaia is the favourite to gain approval in September.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4023064-102285,00.html (660 words)

	Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri 1
		Luckily my probe team was not lost on the mission, and two years later, I had managed to use these trained probes to Mind Control the strategic Lily of the Valley out from under her oppressive grip.
		Gaia, with her cushy location staked out in the Jungle lead the known planet with 18 council votes, Mad Spinach had managed to expand himself to 15 votes, and I was in there at 13 votes.
		Every island that stretched along my (and Gaia's) Eastern coast was filled with those Smurfy-colored peoples, and their expansion had wrapped around the Northern stretches of the planet to the point where they were on the Western side of the Believers.
	www.talkstrategy.com /Games/SMAC/SMAC1.htm (5723 words)

	Science Glossary - G
		Gaia is an ESA scientific mission related to astrometry.
		The aim of Gaia is to perform three-dimensional mapping of the stars in our Galaxy.
		Three gyroscopes rotating about perpendicular axes help to maintain the orientation of a spacecraft in space by detecting rotation about any of the axes and initiating a mechanism to correct it.
	sci2.esa.int /glossary/glossary_g.html (841 words)

	Space exploration : Astronomy & space : Fact files : Learning : National Maritime Museum
		The probe is due to arrive at the outermost planet of the solar system in July 2015.
		In July 2004 the probe arrived at Saturn and is now engaged in a scientific exploration of the ringed planet and its moons.
		The probe's mission is to study the surface of a comet at close range.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /server/show/nav.00500300f00o005 (926 words)

	ESA Science & Technology: European Space Agency to probe asteroid blind spot
		However, a study performed for ESA has shown that the Gaia spacecraft will be able to see clearly into this 'blind spot' and keep precise track of the Aten population.
		He found that Gaia would be ideal because it is designed to measure the position of celestial objects with unprecedented accuracy.
		Gaia is expected to be launched around 2010.
	sci.esa.int /content/news/index.cfm?aid=1&cid=1&oid=29787 (742 words)

	Gaia - Taking The Galactic Census
		With the selection of the photometric filters for Gaia now entering the final design phase, all interested parties are invited to provide their comments to the document authors in the coming weeks, to assist convergence of this important activity.
		Gaia in 2003, a status report prepared by the Gaia Project Scientist, summarises the status of the Gaia project at the end of 2003, describes the progress achieved in 2003, and summarises the major ongoing and planned activities.
		ESA's Gaia (a global astrometry mission planned for launch in 2010) and NASA's SIM (a pointed astrometry mission scheduled to launch in 2009) are now the only space astrometry missions planned for the foreseeable future.
	www.rssd.esa.int /SA-general/Projects/GAIA/news_archive.html (4025 words)

	IndiaBirds.com - Article Home Page
		Gaia theory provides a compelling logic for biodiversity.
		However, NASA was more interested in sending a probe to Mars than to answer the question of whether life existed in Mars and hence these findings were pushed under the carpet at that time.
		Gaia theory teaches us that nature is an object to be treated with respect and biodiversity is required for sustenance of life.
	www.indiabirds.com /Content/Article.asp?ID=88 (1010 words)

	The European Space Agency (ESA) a menu of new space missions, for 2008-2013.
		A sixth project to spot habitable planets is on "reserve," depending on the health of future space budgets, both at ESA and NASA.
		GAIA will be geared to give precise and detailed information about the billion brightest objects in the sky.
		This unprecedented census, said ESA scientists, should have the same sort of impact on astronomy as brand-new overviews have had on other branches of science, such as weather satellites in meteorology or genome projects in genetics.
	www.space.com /news/spaceagencies/esa_future_001013.html (815 words)

	Today
		The probe continued to transmit data after landing — extending the probe's expected lifetime — which was a pleasant surprise for the scientists.
		The fact that the probe continued transmitting data after landing could mean that it landed on land, rather than in liquid, Lebreton said, but it is really too early to tell.
		As the probe descended, it drifted over a plateau (centre of image) and was heading towards its landing site in a dark area (right).
	www.indiana.edu /~geol105/images/gaia_chapter_2/titan-huygens.htm (1396 words)

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