The Standard Model is getting long in the tooth as we’ve illustrated in previous write-ups, and the insistence and persistence upon ‘dark matter’ is looking less likely than Planet 9 with every discovery. Pft, we hear your dismissive exhalation, what does some hack with a high school education know anyway? We’d like to introduce you to Indranil Banik’s proposal for Milgromian dynamics (mond) and why it’s a better theory than dark matter by a long shot. Amidst all this dark matter and Olber’s paradox, the potential best method of detecting extraterrestrials is spotting their lights. For example Leonard David proposes Alien Hunters Should Look For City Lights From ‘Urbanized Planets’ according to a a new study while outlining the challenges and rewards of such a survey. What could assist the search is this New Instrument Could Spy Signs Of Alien Life In Glowing Rocks by detecting biofluorescent materials on other worlds and Allison Gasparini has the lowdown on this fascinating approach. But where is humanity to begin looking as the exoplanet count has gone From Zero To 5,000 worlds in thirty years! Over at Aeon there’s a pretty little visualization, set to music, on the exoplanets discovered within the lifespan of the youngest of millennials. (CS)
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