Category Archives: Exoplanets and Aliens

Our continuing search for new life and (maybe) new civilizations

Fusion Rocket Engines, SETI and Science: Seriously 0 (0)

Nerd alert! This week I used words like deuterium and magnetohydrodynamics. And I may have gone into more detail that necessary about why we didn’t have fusion power generators in the 1960s. A British company’s plans for test-firing a fusion … Continue reading

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Back to Betelgeuse, Methenium in Orion, TRAPPIST-1 Update 0 (0)

Scientists found methenium, a simple organic compound, in a protoplanetary disk. I’ll talk about that this week, and why it’s a big deal. The planet TRAPPIST-1c is about the same size as Venus, but it’s very likely airless. Betelgeuse may … Continue reading

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NASA, UAPs, UFOs and a Bart Simpson Balloon 0 (0)

It’s been two and a half weeks since NASA’s “Public Meeting on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” aired on YouTube. Or is that streamed on YouTube? Never mind. The NASA panelists did not announce contact with an extraterrestrial diplomat, or admit that … Continue reading

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