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SETI and the Drake Equation

Published on August 28, 2022 By sirrahc

“I am usually baffled by the thoughts and accomplishments of humans in different cultures. I’ll be damned if I can state with certainty what some extraterrestrial source of intelligence might do.” — Stephen Jay Gould, noted paleontologist and evolutionary biologist When I wrote “SETI and the Fermi Paradox”, it was all I could do to […]

About That Newest Exoplanet…

Published on November 19, 2017 By sirrahc

“If scientists are able to detect gases like oxygen in the atmosphere of Ross 128 b, that could be a good indicator of biological processes on the planet.”  — Molly Rubin (Quartz Media) It seems like a new exoplanet (aka “extrasolar planet”, i.e., a planet in a solar system other than ours) is found every […]