April 23, 2018 updates Posted on April 23, 2018June 28, 2020 by Doug Loss A Thought Experiment Relevant to the Fermi Paradox https://geopolicraticus.wordpress.com/2018/04/21/a-thought-experiment-relevant-to-the-fermi-paradox/ Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Framework for Their Assessment https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1737 Woodpeckers and Diamonds: Some Aspects of Evolutionary Convergence in Astrobiology https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1741 An Accurate Mass Determination for Kepler-1655b, a Moderately Irradiated World with a Significant Volatile Envelope http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aab8f3 Observational Techniques With Transiting Exoplanetary Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07357 A universal spin-mass relation for brown dwarfs and planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07380 Analyzing astronomical data with Apache Spark [not specifically interstellar-oriented, but useful in analysis] https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07501 The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: 1.1-1.9 GHz observations of 692 Nearby Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03491