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- There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something…
- The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of…
- Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as…
- Jupiter, a world far larger than Earth, is so warm that it currently radiates more internal heat than it receives from the Sun.
- The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was roughly equivalent to…
- I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to me.…
- Nine out of 10 Hollywood aliens look like us. Oh, sure, they might be short, big-eyed and hairless - decked out in skin smoother than…
- While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to them…
- The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid -…
- Any society that could come here could pick up the lights from New York. What should we do about that? Should we darken New York…
- Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant…
- We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say…
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