A review of If the Universe is Teaming With Aliens…Where Is Everybody? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Stephen Webb. Second edition, 2015 Springer. . The Fermi Paradox: Where Is Everybody? This book documents and comments on 75 potential solutions or answers to the Fermi Paradox on why we haven’t found proof of intelligent, extraterrestrial life yet. The Fermi Paradox is based on the following generally accepted views on the likelihood of ETI (Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the Milky Way galaxy: The Milky Way contains about two hundred billion stars. These presumably have planets…
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On July 30, 2020, NASA launched the Perseverance rover scheduled to land on Mars on February 18, 2021. It will land in Jezero Crater which is thought to have filled with water creating a lake in the ancient past (a couple billions years ago, I think). This makes it a prime target to look for evidence of microbial life. The rover will take several soil samples and place them in tubes, leave them on the surface for future missions to Mars to collect the samples and return them to Earth. Looks like the target date (earliest) for this would be…
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The possibility of alien (extraterrestrial) life elsewhere in our milky way galaxy, and in the billions or perhaps trillions of other galaxies in the Universe, is something that has occupied my thinking and imagination for most of my life. This is a major topic this blog will look at. This includes most major aspects of it such as the origin of life, galactic habitable zones, SETI, exoplanets, UFOs, etc. As will be the usual case, I will have blog posts, YouTube videos, book reviews, articles, etc. by myself and others that I think are interesting or important on the subject.…
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