July 17, 2023 Updates Posted on July 17, 2023 by Doug Loss Life in the Cosmos: Paradox of Silence and Self-Awareness https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05507 Transhumanism in a Cosmic Perspective https://annalsphilosophy-ub.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Anale-Filosofie-2022-nr.1.pdf#page=3 Science opportunities with solar sailing smallsats https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063323001137 Overfitting Affects the Reliability of Radial Velocity Mass Estimates of the V1298 Tau Planets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acde78 Accurate and Efficient Photoeccentric Transit Modeling https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace16d DMPP-4: Candidate sub-Neptune mass planets orbiting a naked-eye star https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2109/7224603?searchresult=1 Analytical State Approximation of Electric Sail with Fixed Pitch Angle https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G007487 A massive hot Jupiter orbiting a metal-rich early-M star discovered in the TESS full frame images https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07329