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Is There a Planet Out There Even Better than Earth?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
May 24, 20231 min read


Humanity’s Long-Term Survival Requires Space Colonization.
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
May 23, 20231 min read


The Hunt for Life in the Alpha Centauri System
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
May 4, 20231 min read


Why Aliens are Likely to be AI
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Apr 21, 20231 min read


Adapting to Alien Places may not be a Big Problem for Life. Ask Any of These Strange Creatures!
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Mar 17, 20231 min read


How Will The World End?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Mar 13, 20231 min read


How False Positives Impact the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Feb 21, 20231 min read


Is There Life on the Icy Moons of our Solar System?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Feb 13, 20231 min read


A New Hope for Solving the Fermi Paradox?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jan 20, 20231 min read


Io, an Overlooked Target for Astrobiology
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Jan 13, 20231 min read


What Sort of Ethics Would Aliens Practice?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Dec 20, 20221 min read


How to Make Alien Life Come Out of Hiding.
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Dec 15, 20221 min read


Why We Need a Human Base on the Moon.
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Nov 17, 20221 min read


Who – or What – Would Survive an All-Out Nuclear War?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Nov 3, 20221 min read


Were Organic Molecules on Mars Made by Life?
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Oct 26, 20221 min read


Why Technologically Advanced Aliens Would Have to be Social Creatures
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Oct 14, 20221 min read


Mysterious Aerial Sightings Can Now Be Investigated Scientifically—And They Should Be!
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Sep 20, 20221 min read


This Private Space Mission Aims to Discover Alien Life on Venus
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Sep 8, 20221 min read


To Find Advanced Alien Life We Need to Detect both Biosignatures and Technosignatures
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Aug 19, 20221 min read


The Overview Effect: Why We Should Speed Up Space Exploration
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Aug 2, 20221 min read
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