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Facing Reality About Life on Other Planets, 5: Water and Rock

September 12, 2017

by Dr Henry Richter There is much interest in searching for life elsewhere in the Universe. In previous articles I talked about the many criteria describing conditions and circumstances required to establish and maintain life on a planet. I talked about the importance of the location of the planet in its solar system. The location […]

Physics

Facing Reality About Life on Other Planets: Moon, Atmosphere, and Mass

August 29, 2017

This is part 3 of Dr Henry Richter's discussion on the requirements for life to exist on a planet elsewhere in the universe.

Solar System

Habitability Requires the Right Kind of Star

August 19, 2017

This is a continuation of my discussion on the requirements to allow life to exist on a planet elsewhere in the universe.

Philosophy of Science

Chinks in the Climate Science Data

August 17, 2017

Consensus can be more robust than the data it rests on. That's true in Darwinism, and appears to be true in climate science, according to some published doubts.

Astronomy

Facing Reality About Life on Other Planets

August 11, 2017

by Dr Henry Richter For a number of years I have been amused to watch many in the scientific community conduct a frantic campaign to identify life elsewhere in the universe. There has been a plethora of articles and significant dollars dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life, particularly intelligent life. In recent times several […]