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The Superintelligent Species
Read more: The Superintelligent SpeciesIn this post, I want to continue, in a more limited way, from the post I made last week, about traveling the universe, or at least our Milky Way galaxy. Last week’s post was about why we haven’t been visited by aliens from other planets, and I gave some reasons why this hasn’t taken place. …
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Is Outer Space Real?
Read more: Is Outer Space Real?I still have lots of questions. Like, what is outer space? Is it real? Does it actually exist? Now, I’m defining “outer space” as all the emptiness outside all the other things in the universe. I’m eliminating all planets and stars and asteroids and all space junk and photons and atoms and molecules and gas…
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Movement
Read more: MovementAs I mentioned in my post of two weeks ago, I said I had a lot of questions to ask, and I thought I’d ask a few of them today. Instead of a post asking inane questions about a whole bunch of different items, this time I thought I’d throw out a question or two…
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Beauty In Outer Space
Read more: Beauty In Outer SpaceOne of my three science fiction novels is about a group of explorers who land on a distant planet in an attempt to see if it could be colonized by people of their civilization. Many things go wrong on that planet, and that leads most of the group to consider it as dangerous and unattractive, a place to…
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The United States Space Force
Read more: The United States Space ForceIn recent weeks (I’m writing this on August 19, 2018) we’ve heard from the President of the United States that he wants the US to set up a “Space Force,” for what reason I’m not exactly sure. The main result of this force will be the presence of weapons, particularly atomic, in outer space. I wonder why.…
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All Those Humanoids Out There
Read more: All Those Humanoids Out ThereWith all the advances in astronomy over the past quarter century, we’ve learned a lot about the universe, especially about out own galaxy, the Milky Way, and even more about the area within a few hundred light years of own home planet. We’ve learned that there are planets orbiting other stars, stars relatively nearby in our little corner…