One day in spring 2018 astrophysics professor Jason Wright gave his students a tall order: make a substantial, novel contribution to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)—in a semester. That kind of research is usually reserved for Ph.D. dissertations, the culmination of years of toil and turmoil.
At the helm of this still unbuilt ship is Wright, an affable, articulate guy who—until fairly recently—mostly studied exoplanets and not signs of their potential exobeings. His journey into SETI research was a coincidence, a collision between past and present that—like any collision—sent him spinning off in a new direction.
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Mike Gold To Shepherd NAC Extraterrestrial Resource Principles in New Job at NASA –
Tomorrow, however, he reports for duty at NASA as special advisor to Administrator Jim Bridenstine for international and legal affairs.
In an interview today, Gold talked about the NAC-approved extraterrestrial resources principles and broader efforts internationally to develop an international agreement of some sort.
On October 31, NAC adopted the Gold committee’s recommendation to Bridenstine that NASA work with the National Space Council and the Departments of State, Commerce, Transportation and Defense “to formulate and adopt specific principles, guidelines, rules, and regulations” that address extraterrestrial resource extraction and utilization. Furthermore, it recommended that NASA and other federal entities advocate for the global adoption of such principles.
SpaceX's Starship May Start Flying Moon Missions in 2022 | Space
SpaceX's huge Mars-colonizing Starship vehicle could make its first extraterrestrial touchdown just three short years.
SpaceX is one of five companies that are newly eligible to deliver robotic payloads to the lunar surface for NASA, via the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. SpaceX proposes to do this work with Starship and Super Heavy, the reusable spaceship-rocket duo that the company is developing primarily to help humanity become a multiplanet species.
NASA Just Confirmed There Are Water Plumes Above The Surface of Jupiter's Moon Europa
A team led by researchers out of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has confirmed traces of water vapor above the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
"While scientists have not yet detected liquid water directly, we've found the next best thing: water in vapor form," lead researcher and NASA planetary scientist Lucas Paganini said in a NASA statement .
According to a paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy on Monday, the NASA team discovered enough water vapor being released from Europa to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool within minutes.
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The furor over Medicare-for-all ignores a key question - The Washington Post
Ignored in the furor is what might be the most incredible assertion in the health-care debate: the claim by the centrists that they can provide health care to everyone for less money than Medicare-for-all by cobbling a public option onto our current system. Americans, they claim, can have their choice between private insurance or a public system like Medicare.
It doesn't take much reflection to realize that this is a real stretch. Adding a public option on top of our current system would continue the staggering administrative waste of the private insurance system. About 30 percent of every health-care dollar is squandered on administrative overhead — largely the paperwork, the pre-approvals, denials and appeals that are inherent in a system of for-profit private insurance companies. That's about $1 trillion a year.
Japan-Led Team Finds Sugar Molecules in Meteorites | Nippon.com
The group, including scientists of Tohoku University, Hokkaido University and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, has published the study in the online edition of the U.S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The two meteorites, found in Australia and Morocco, are rich in carbon and are believed to have fallen on Earth from asteroids belonging to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Happening on Twitter
Alien life could be more common than we thought, scientists say https://t.co/cfcY1Qjq5y Independent (from London, England) Tue Nov 19 13:01:48 +0000 2019
Is there #alien life out there? We're working with NASA to find out! This summer a team will be at Australia's Cas… https://t.co/1wD0mkzO3a AusAntarctic (from Tasmania, Australia) Tue Nov 19 00:17:10 +0000 2019
Space alien research could get its first grad program https://t.co/0QxrghFcqE https://t.co/SSmG8oBVQD sciam (from New York City) Mon Nov 18 12:00:10 +0000 2019
SETI gets a spot at The Academy's table. My story on @Astro_Wright's efforts to create the first formalized educati… https://t.co/oGFVOD7UU0 ScolesSarah (from Denver, CO) Mon Nov 18 17:56:29 +0000 2019
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