Daily Archives: April 22, 2015

Blog Post #10: 100 Year Starship

After learning about all of these thoughts and ideas about interstellar travel and the widespread interest in human exploration to …

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Blog Post #9: 11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox

Of all the topics covered in this class, I found the Fermi Paradox the most interesting, and this is probably …

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Astronomy in “The Big Bang Theory” and “Interstellar”

I originally came into Astronomy 201 just wanted to fulfill my last hours as a second-semester senior at Vanderbilt University with a subject I was interested in. Now that the course is coming its conclusion, the class has evolved into…

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‘Definite Evidence’ Of Alien Life Within 20-30 Years

In a panel discussion earlier this month, NASA Chief Scientist, Ellen Stofan, said that there is definite evidence that we will find alien life within the next 20-30 years. She defines life not as ‘little green men’ but microbes, which…

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