Sunday, July 29, 2012 I have a strong suspicion that moons
around gas giants should be the most likely possibilities for
any spacefaring life in the universe, for a few reasons (among
others): - red dwarfs are the most common stars in the universe,
and planets tidally locked to a gas giant around such a star
would not be tidally locked to the star itself, giving them a
fairly even cycle of day and night - moons around gas giants
vastly outnumber planets in our own solar system - any
intelligent life that were to develop on such a moon would have
a much more intimate connection with space. That last point is
the most interesting. When one looks at creation stories from
thousands of years ago one finds references to space, but not in
too much detail. There is a big light called the Sun and a
smaller one called the Moon, then there are stars, and if the
author has been paying attention then he will also mention that
there are some wandering stars that we call planets. Besides
that and the shape of the constellat