May 12, 2021 updates Posted on May 12, 2021 by Doug Loss Reconfiguring SETI in the microbial context: Panspermia as a solution to Fermi’s paradox https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0303264721000964 The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). IV. Planetary systems around low-mass stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04596 Friends and Foes: Conditional Occurrence Rates of Exoplanet Companions and their Impact on Radial Velocity Follow-up Surveys https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04703