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Thursday, May 5, 2016

Criticisms of the Rare Earth Hypothesis

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The Rare Earth hypothesis holds that one of the reasons scientists on Earth have not found other alien civilizations in our galaxy is that ...
Monday, May 2, 2016

Colonizing the Moon

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The closest astronomical body to Earth that people can one day colonize is the moon. For instance, the European Space Agency wants to establ...
Friday, April 29, 2016

The History of Europa

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Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, has a diameter of 3,100 kilometers, which is about 20 percent smaller than that of the Earth’s moon. Almost ...

Discovering Mars

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For many years, humans have observed Mars and thought about whether we should eventually colonize it. NASA has sent several missions to land...

Delaying Our Doomsday

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The average lifetime of an intelligent civilization is one of the variables in the Drake Equation used to estimate the number of alien civil...

The Future of Traveling

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Teleportation is everyone’s dream superpower. Instantly moving from one place to another would infinitely increase production and efficiency...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Home in the Void

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The idea of space colonization has been explored in many ways over the past several years. Many individuals in the industry and scientific c...
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Peter Freeman
Peter Freeman is a project scientist in Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Statistics. He received his Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Chicago, and now works at the interface between astronomy and statistics. His astrostatistical research has included forays into source detection in X-ray images, analysis of cosmic microwave background data, estimation of photometric redshifts, and classification of supernovae based on their light curves, among many other projects. As a CANDELS affiliate researcher, his interest lies in quantifying a galaxy's appearance, or its morphology, and using that information to constrain models of galaxy formation.
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