Tag: exoplanets
Guillermo Gonzalez Extends “Privileged Planet” Arguments to Space Travel
A skeptic might ask, “Couldn’t a more technologically advanced civilization develop new sources of fuel that require less mass?”
Plate Tectonics: Why Life Is Served on Plates
The ground under your feet is literally moving. The continents are drifting apart near an average rate of one inch per year.
Read Carefully, Nature News Conspires to Refute Darwinism
The kingfisher bird has to dive after fish rapidly without busting its beak. Japanese scientists looked into the physics of this, and redesigned the noses of their bullet trains.
Gonzalez: “Worlds Like This Are Hard to Come By”
How special the Earth is has become ever more apparent, in ways that allow life to flourish, but more than that.
On the 15th Anniversary of The Privileged Planet: An Update
The basic thesis of TPP is that the best places for intelligent observers are also the best places for observing.