Sudden Future Singularities (SFS) have been a lively area in cosmology the last few years, hitting the mainstream media as “the Big Rip”, which even featured in a story by Stephen Baxter. Now it seems a pressure-driven SFS might occur in a mere 8.7 million years… http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.6661v1.pdf …Fermi Paradox answer? The ETIs are gathering at

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An enticing mission proposal for the largest moon of Saturn, Titan, which is like a frozen Earth, with ice for rocks and methane/ethane (natural gas) for the liquid medium. Titan has a simplified, languid weather system because it is small compared to Earth (5,150 km vs 12,756 km) and colder (93.6 K vs 288.15 K.)

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