November 20, 2023 Updates Posted on November 20, 2023 by Doug Loss The Human Challenges of Conquering Space and Colonizing Other Worlds https://www.academia.edu/103359543/ Corrections of errors in special relativity theory and the influence of paradoxes on it https://hal.science/hal-04283596/document Cooperative Evolutionary Pressure and Diminishing Returns Might Explain the Fermi Paradox: On What Super-AIs Are Like and Why We Don’t See Them https://osf.io/bq438/ Why are Mountaintops Cold? The Transition of Surface Lapse Rate on Dry Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10151 Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey: III. Recovery and Confirmation of a Temperate, Mildly Eccentric, Single-Transit Jupiter Orbiting TOI-2010 https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10232 Calibration Unit Design for High-Resolution Infrared Spectrograph for Exoplanet Characterization (HISPEC) https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10239 Forming Giant Planets Around Late-M Dwarfs: Pebble Accretion and Planet-Planet Collision https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10317 Wavelet Transforms of Microlensing Data: Denoising, Extracting Intrinsic Pulsations, and Planetary Signals https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad07d9 Planetary Entropy Production as a Thermodynamic Constraint for Exoplanet Habitability https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3526/7425639?searchresult=1