July 8, 2021 updates Posted on July 8, 2021 by Doug Loss Joining the “Galactic Club”: What Price Admission? – A hypothetical case study of the impact of human rights on a future accession of humanity to interstellar civilisation networks https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016328721001105 The Second Discovery from the COol Companions ON Ultrawide orbiTS (COCONUTS) Program: A Cold Wide-Orbit Exoplanet around a Young Field M Dwarf at 10.9 pc https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02805 An internal heating mechanism operating in ultra-short-period planets orbiting magnetically active stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03044 Spitzer phase curve observations and circulation models of the inflated ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03349 Furthering a Comprehensive SETI Bibliography https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02887