Wednesday Wanderings: No Aliens to Contact?, New Fairytales, Our Ninth Planet (Maybe), and Studying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Volcanos

Is this the reason we haven’t been able to contact any alien races?

Aliens

500 new fairytales have been found in Germany:

Fairy Tales

Oceanographers are set to study part of the 40,000 mile long mid-ocean ridges:

Mid-Ocean Ridges

Is there a ninth planet in our solar system? Astronomers think there may be:

Ninth Planet

(Image: Turtle Pits on the mid-Atlantic ridge, from Center for Marine Environmental Research/University of Bremen, Germany on nytimes.com)
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