The Astronomical Discovery Of BUCKYBALLS In The Small Magellanic Cloud Back In The_Year Of 2010.  

Life in The TRAPPIST_1 System

The Potential for Life is higher than ever on The TRAPPIST_1 Exoplanets, a Researcher says. http://wr.al/1AePv

I sure can’t wait until Asteroid and Lunar Mining become real_industries someday! 

Basic Argument for an Intellectual Revolution

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Here is an outline of the argument for the urgent need to bring about a revolution in the aims and methods of academic inquiry, its whole character and structure, so that it takes up its proper task of promoting wisdom rather than just acquiring knowledge. Academia as it exists today is the product of two past great intellectual revolutions. The first is the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, associated with Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Boyle, Newton and many others, which in effect created modern science. A method was discovered for the progressive acquisition of knowledge, the famous empirical method of science. The second revolution is that of the Enlightenment, especially the French Enlightenment, in the 18th century. Voltaire, Diderot, Condorcet and the other philosophes had the profoundly important idea that it might be possible to learn from scientific progress how to achieve social progress towards an enlightened world. They did not just have the idea: they did everything they could to put the idea into practice in their lives. They fought dictatorial power, superstition, and injustice with weapons no more lethal than those of argument and wit. They gave their support to the virtues of tolerance, openness to doubt, readiness to learn from criticism and from experience. Courageously and energetically they laboured to promote reason and enlightenment in personal and social life.

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Here's some advice from off of Wrong_Planet about how to thrive as a Special_Needs Family. 

Nice Sci_Fi Scenery!  

Three planets with sizes and temperatures akin to those of the Earth and Venus are circling a dwarf star 40 light-years away. The star in question, named TRAPPIST-1 after the telescope used to observe it, is weaker and cooler than the Sun at the heart of our solar system. "With such short orbital

At Least 94 More Exoplanets were just recently discovered by Astronomers and Astrophysicists using NASA's Kepler Space_Telescope.

Scientists discover almost 100 new exoplanets

“We started out analyzing 275 candidates of which 149 were validated as real exoplanets. In turn 95 of these planets have proved to be new discoveries,” said American PhD student Andrew Mayo at the National Space Institute (DTU Space) at the Technical University of Denmark.

“This research has been underway since the first K2 data release in 2014.”

Mayo is the main author of the work being presented in the Astronomical Journal.

The research has been conducted partly as a senior project during his undergraduate studies at Harvard College. It has also involved a team of international colleagues from institutions such as NASA, Caltech, UC Berkeley, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Tokyo.

Keep reading

It's not quite warp drive, but researchers are hot on the trail of building nuclear fusion impulse engines, complete with real-life dilithium crystals. Read this article by Amanda Kooser on CNET.

Here is an FAQ Page about:  Dyson Spheres. 

One interesting way for Astronomers to search for Extra_Solar Civilizations and/or Extra_Solar Alien_Technology is to search for Chemical Signatures of Advanced Alien_Technology like: 

Chlorofluorocarbons.