August 23, 2022 updates Posted on August 23, 2022August 23, 2022 by Doug Loss Planetary Engineering Ethics: Mechanisms, Issues, and Consequences of Terraforming https://commons.und.edu/ee-stu/8/ A Solution to the Fermi Paradox Based on Adaptations and Diminishing Returns: On What Super-AIs Are Like and Why We Don’t See Them https://osf.io/bq438/ First principles of terrestrial life: exemplars for potential extra-terrestrial biology https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12064-022-00373-x Extraterrestrial Life Signature Detection Microscopy: Search and Analysis of Cells and Organics on Mars and Other Solar System Bodies https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-022-00920-4 Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – I. Improved exoplanet detection yield estimates for a large mid-infrared space-interferometer mission https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa40366-21/aa40366-21.html Near-infrared and optical emission of WASP-5 b https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43131-22/aa43131-22.html K2 and Spitzer phase curves of the rocky ultra-short-period planet K2-141 b hint at a tenuous rock vapor atmosphere https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa42912-21/aa42912-21.html A mini-chemical scheme with net reactions for 3D general circulation models – I. Thermochemical kinetics https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa42816-21/aa42816-21.html Euclid-Roman joint microlensing survey: Early mass measurement, free floating planets, and exomoons https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa40351-21/aa40351-21.html A Search for Optical Laser Emission from Alpha Centauri AB https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2231/6668809 The UV-SCOPE Mission: Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Characterization Of Planets and their Environments https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09547 VapoRock: Thermodynamics of vaporized silicate melts for modeling volcanic outgassing and magma ocean atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09582 Trapping (sub-)Neptunes similar to TOI-216b at the inner disk rim: Implications for the disk viscosity and the Neptunian desert https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10257 TOI-1468: A system of two transiting planets, a super-Earth and a mini-Neptune, on opposite sides of the radius valley https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10351