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Exo-Daisy World: Revisiting Gaia Theory through an Informational Architecture Perspective

- arXiv

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PostedOctober 31, 2024
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A Reassessment of the “Hard-Steps” Model for the Evolution of Intelligent Life

- arXiv

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PostedSeptember 2, 2024
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Cooling and Instabilities in Colliding Radiative Flows With Toroidal Magnetic Fields

- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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PostedJune 22, 2024
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How Negative Feedback and the Ambient Environment Limit the Influence of Recombination in Common Envelope Evolution

- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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PostedMarch 1, 2024
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The Oxygen Bottleneck for Technospheres

- Nature Astronomy

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PostedJanuary 31, 2024
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The Tempestuous Life of a Butterfly

- The Astrophysical Journal

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PostedNovember 30, 2023
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Probing Accretion Spin-Up in Binary Main-Sequence Carbon Stars

- Bulletin of the AAS

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PostedJuly 31, 2023
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Planetary Scale Information Transmission in the Biosphere and Technosphere: Limits and Evolution

- Life

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PostedMay 31, 2023
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Technosignatures: Frameworks for Their Assessment

- The Astrophysical Journal

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PostedFebruary 28, 2023
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The Messy Death of a Multiple Star System and the Resulting Planetary Nebula as Observed by JWST

- Nature Astronomy

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PostedDecember 1, 2022
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Effects of Charge Exchange on the Evaporative Wind of HD 209458b

- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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PostedNovember 30, 2022
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Morphology of Shocked Lateral Outflows in Colliding Hydrodynamic Flows

- Physics of Plasmas

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PostedOctober 31, 2022
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The Consensus Problem in Polities of Agents With Dissimilar Cognitive Architectures

- Entropy

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PostedSeptember 11, 2022
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Jets From Main Sequence and White Dwarf Companions During Common Envelope Evolution

- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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PostedJune 1, 2022
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Intelligence as a Planetary Scale Process

- International Journal of Astrobiology

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PostedMay 5, 2022
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The Case for Technosignatures: Why They May Be Abundant, Long-lived, Highly Detectable, and Unambiguous

- The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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PostedMarch 1, 2022
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Habitat Bennu: Design Concepts for Spinning Habitats Constructed from Rubble Pile Near-Earth Asteroids

- Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

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PostedJanuary 11, 2022
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