Implications of Neutron Star Mergers for Extraterrestrial Civilizations
arXiv:1803.04919
Abstract
The economy and fate of extraterrestrial civilizations should depend on the abundance of gold and uranium, made in neutron star mergers.
3 pages, no figures, published in Scientific American
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