Alien Realities

Speculations on alien biology, communication, linguistics, psychology, society, technology, and theology, and the possible effects of contact or discovery of alien life.

Monday, July 2, 2018

Ice Water Worlds

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I am getting caught up with my Astronomy magazine reading and was reading the article "Saturn's small wonders" in the March 20...

Friday, November 4, 2016

Planets With Four Suns May Be Not So Rare After All

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While numerous two- and three-star systems containing planets have been discovered (with planet-harboring binary-star systems possibly outnu...

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Monday, August 29, 2016

Asimov's Nightfall

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Nightfall Begins Magazine editor John W. Campbell asked Isaac Asimov to write a story based on a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, publishe...

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

(Mostly) Water Worlds

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Imagine a super Earth that is mostly covered in water. Landmasses are few and scattered. What would be the consequences for the development ...

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Very Elliptical Orbits and Possible Life

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As Spock Would Say? From time to time I read about how planets in very elliptical orbits, orbits which take the planet in and out of the ...

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Sunday, July 1, 2012

New Technique to Weigh Planets

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New Technique to Weigh Planets Summary: For the first time, scientists have developed a method for det...

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

All Known (as of June 2012) Planets to Scale (drawn by xkcd)

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http://xkcd.com/1071/ http://www.planetary.org/blogs/mat-kaplan/20120620-xkcd-all_exoplanets.html

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