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The Other Guys Out There
Read more: The Other Guys Out ThereI’ve noticed recently several postings on social media questioning why haven’t we heard from intelligent beings from outer space. The question has so often been asked, if we are capable of listening to signals from outer space, and observing all the stars and planets and galaxies and all the other stuff that exists out there,…
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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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Has Evolution Shot Itself In The Foot?
Read more: Has Evolution Shot Itself In The Foot?Evolution is a wonderful thing. We humans wouldn’t be here without it. Life on Earth started around two billion years ago and through thick and thin, through disasters that several times almost resulted in total extinction of living beings, life maintained itself and changed and evolved over all those years and resulted in its finest…
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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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Where Are They? Part 3
Read more: Where Are They? Part 3In the first two entries in this series of brief examinations of the difficulty of traveling in outer space to new planets and stars and worlds, I looked at how difficult it is for humans to travel in outer space (we’ve only just made it to the moon), and whether the knowledge of the ability…
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Life On Venus?
Read more: Life On Venus?Could life ever arise on the planet Venus? That is, Venus as it exists today. Venus is a hellish place, with temperatures of around 462°C at the surface, rain composed of sulfuric acid, lava-flows over much of the surface, and an atmospheric pressure around 90 times that of Earth at sea level. It’s not a pleasant place,…