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Implications of Neutron Star Mergers for Extraterrestrial Civilizations

Popular Physics 2018-03-14 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies
Authors: Abraham Loeb
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Abstract

The economy and fate of extraterrestrial civilizations should depend on the abundance of gold and uranium, made in neutron star mergers.

Keywords

neutron star mergers extraterrestrial civilizations gold uranium

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@article{arxiv.1803.04919,
  title  = {Implications of Neutron Star Mergers for Extraterrestrial Civilizations},
  author = {Abraham Loeb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.04919},
  year   = {2018}
}

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3 pages, no figures, published in Scientific American

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