Read Five Billion Years of Solitude Online
Authors: Lee Billings
technological progress,
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Urey on,
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and visibility of communication,
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technological singularity,
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tectonic plates,
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telescopes,
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active optics in,
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Allen Array,
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ATLAST,
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Automated Planet Finder,
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ExoplanetSat,
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Galileo’s use of,
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Gemini,
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in Great Observatories program,
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Hubble,
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James Webb (JWST),
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Kasting and,
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Kepler,
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mEarth Project,
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Sun as,
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Terrestrial Planet Finders,
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Terrestrial Planet Finders
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observatories
Teller, Edward,
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temperature-pressure profile,
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Terrestrial Planet Finders (TPFs),
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coronagraphic,
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interferometer concept for,
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Seager’s work with,
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starshade (occulter) concept for,
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TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite),
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Thales,
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Thébault, Philippe,
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thermodynamic disequilibrium,
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Thoreau, Henry,
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Time,
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time, deep,
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time capsule,
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Todd, David Peck,
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Toronto Sun,
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transits,
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Traub, Wesley,
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travel, interstellar,
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tropopause,
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Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin,
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Turner, Edwin,
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2063 A.D.,
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universe:
Big Bang and,
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evolution of,
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expansion of,
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inflation of,
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recombination in,
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smoothness of,
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universes, parallel,
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University of California,
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University of California, Berkeley:
Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science,
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Radio Astronomy Laboratory,
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University of California, Santa Cruz,
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University of Vermont,
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Uranus,
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Urey, Harold,
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entry of,
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Utt, James B.,
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Valencia, Diana,
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van de Kamp, Peter,
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Venera
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Venus,
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atmosphere of,
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climate of,
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Galileo’s study of,
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Kepler’s study of,
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Laughlin’s valuation of,
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transits of,
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water on,
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Vogt, Steve,
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Von Braun, Wernher,
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Voyager missions,
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image of Earth from,
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phonograph records on,
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Walden
(Thoreau),
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Walden Pond,
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Walker, James,
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water,
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on Earth,
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on Mars,
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on Venus,
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Wevrick, Mike,
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illness and death of,
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Seager’s marriage to,
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Whipple, Fred,
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Whitfield, Michael,
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Whitmire, Dan,
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Wiktorowicz, Sloane,
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