Scifi Thoughts

This episode is part of an ongoing series that started on episode 133.  Here is the show archive: https://LancerKind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/ Here is the show's RSS Feed: View feed  or you can subscribe via webpage. A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy, by Xiang Cai, Jonathan H. Jiang, Kristen A. Fahy, Yuk L. Yung : https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902 Author Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep is an excellent SciFi book to pair with the above paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge Background: Learn about the formation of stars and the main sequence of stars: https://byjus.com/physics/life-cycle-of-stars/ Star types: https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/the-types-of-stars/ How Galaxies are formed: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11534 What is Ambiogenesis: https://www.britannica.com/science/abiogenesis Enrico Fermi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi The Drake equation was discussed in Sc