Tag: solar system
Reader’s Question: Planets in the Early Universe
The problem with the early universe is that it was a much more dangerous place.
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?”
Is Space Travel Our Destiny?
I was motivated to do this study after two papers were published in 2018 on the difficulty of launching rockets from super-earths.
Rare Earth at Twenty — And My Connection
In principle, the conjoining of the many Rare Earth factors could overwhelm the available probabilistic resources and serve as evidence for Earth’s design.
Natural and Artificial Nuclear Reactors: Evidence of Purpose in Energy Production?
In 1972 French physicists discovered that natural nuclear fission reactors were in operation about two billion years ago in Oklo, Gabon in Africa.