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Exoplanets

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 17, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design

How many Earth-like planets are there?

Denyse O'Leary
August 17, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
Claim: " Based on their simulations, the researchers estimate that planets very close to Earth in size, from three-quarters to one-and-a-half times the size of earth, with orbital periods ranging from 237 to 500 days, occur around approximately one in four stars." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 17, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: Toxic gases would slow emergence of life on exoplanets

Denyse O'Leary
June 17, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
Researchers: The habitable zone for complex life around many stars could be much smaller than previously thought once the concentrations of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide on planets is considered. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 3, 2019
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Exoplanets, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Physics

Doubt cast on new “exomoon” Rob Sheldon explains

Denyse O'Leary
May 3, 2019
Exoplanets, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Physics
Sheldon: There are red flags all over this data, but the investigators are standing by their measurement. This is what irreproducible papers look like in physics, and why the same crisis that afflicts other disciplines also afflicts physics. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 1, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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Recent finding: The “water world” exoplanets are not habitable ocean planets

Denyse O'Leary
May 1, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
So, it turns out, even if there IS lots of water in a solar system, that doesn't add up to habitability either. Talk about Rare Earth and Privileged Planet. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 30, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design

Researchers: Most life-friendly planets orbiting young stars would quickly lose atmosphere

Denyse O'Leary
April 30, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
From their results: More likely is that many of the planets orbiting M-dwarf stars to have very thin or possible no atmospheres. In both cases, life forming in such systems appears less likely than previously believed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 27, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design

Researcher: Why finding extraterrestrial life “now seems inevitable,” maybe soon

Denyse O'Leary
April 27, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
He ends with, “The ancient question ‘Are we alone?’ has graduated from being a philosophical musing to a testable hypothesis. We should be prepared for an answer.” It’s worth asking another question: What if, after decades of research, no answer comes? What would that change? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 12, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design

Faint hopes easily revived! “Life may be evolving” on closest exoplanet

Denyse O'Leary
April 12, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
The fundamental problem is still the same: It is very difficult to extrapolate from a sample of one instance of life. Suppose we had information on tens of thousands of exoplanets, thousands of which had life. Making the reasonable assumption that a pattern develops within this data, we could then give fairly reliable odds on a given planet having life if its relevant data are known. But we don’t have any of this. It's all a dreamscape. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 14, 2019
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Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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“Very few” exoplanets have strong magnetic fields like Earth’s

Denyse O'Leary
March 14, 2019
Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
This means that the search for extraterrestrial life should focus on planets with strong magnetic fields. Meanwhile, why is it that a thousand coincidences pointing in the same direction never seem to add up to a pattern, just something to explain away? Read More ›