137 Love is the Key Ingredient to the Survival of our Human Civilization
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A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy, by Xiang Cai, Jonathan H. Jiang, Kristen A. Fahy, Yuk L. Yung : https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902
Author Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep is an excellent SciFi book to pair with the above paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge
Background:
Learn about the formation of stars and the main sequence of stars: https://byjus.com/physics/life-cycle-of-stars/
Star types: https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/the-types-of-stars/
How Galaxies are formed: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11534
What is Ambiogenesis: https://www.britannica.com/science/abiogenesis
Enrico Fermi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi
The Drake equation was discussed in SciFi Thoughts episode 098, during the topic of BLAZESKY, a space opera game: https://lancerkind.com/podcast/098-blazesky-role-plays-why-no-aliens/
Interested in how the measurement unit *parsec* was decide? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec#Parsecs_and_kiloparsecs
Interested in reading a space opera?
Check out MEMORY’S VICTIMS
by Lancer Kind
Arcadie struggles with the rest of his shipmates to become immigrants rather than settlers. He adapts better than his sister who seems always involved with lost causes and he becomes part of space force. But he gets mixed up in a mystery about a woman who is breaking interstellar treaties by tampering with generation ships, and her reasons for doing so sound similar to his sister’s affliction—an out-of-control savior complex.
