Eschatian Hypothesis
You’ve heard of the Silurian Hypothesis, now get ready for the Eschatian Hypothesis!
Eschatian Hypothesis
David Kipping
February 3, 2026 draft
Papers
Neovim State Machine
Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity
William W. Crockett, Jack O. Shaw, Carl Simpson, Christopher P. Kempes;
Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity
Proc Biol Sci 1 June 2024; 291 (2025): 20232767. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2767
Astronomically calibrating early Edicaran evolution
Zhang, T., Ma, C., Li, Y. et al.
Astronomically calibrating early Ediacaran evolution
Nature Communications 16, 3049 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57201-1
Does the Measured Abundance Suggest a Biological Origin for the Ancient Alkanes Preserved in a Martian Mudstone?
Does the Measured Abundance Suggest a Biological Origin for the Ancient Alkanes Preserved in a Martian Mudstone?
Alexander A. Pavlov, Caroline Freissinet, Daniel P. Glavin,
Christopher H. House, Jennifer C. Stern, Amy C. McAdam, Anais Roussel,
Jason P. Dworkin, Luoth Chou, Andrew Steele, Paul R. Mahaffy,
Denise Buckner, Felipe Gomez
Astrobiology, vol 26, no. 2, February, 2026
Dodging Snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota
Dodging snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota
Judy P. Pu; Samuel A. Bowring; Jahandar Ramezani; Paul Myrow; Timothy D. Raub; Ed Landing; Andrea Mills; Eben Hodgin; Francis A. Macdonald
Geology (2016) 44 (11): 955–958.
https://doi.org/10.1130/G38284.1
Communications From Superior Galactic Communities
Communications From Superior Galactic Communities
Prof. R.N. Bracewell
Nature, vol. 186, no. 4726, May 28, 1960, pp 670-671
Using a Command Language as a High-Level Programming Language
Using a Command Language as a High-Level Programming Language
John R. Mashey
Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (October 13-15, 1976), pp. 169-176
The Unix Command Language
The UNIX Command Language
K. Thompson
© K Thompson 1976
Said to have appeared in:
Structured Programming - Infotech State of the Art Report
Nicholson House, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
Infotech International Ltd. (March 1975), pp. 375-384.
A Partial Tour Through the UNIX Shell
A Partial Tour Through the UNIX Shell
Geoff Collyer
Usenix Conference Proceedings, Winter 1989
I printed this paper’s pages from a PDF of the whole conference proceedings.