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the wow! signal
Has Earth already made contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence more than thirty years ago? No, not through UFOs or some other paranormal means by via a radio signal in 1977 which matched...
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weird things talks to SETI
When this blog was just starting, I wrote about the infamous Wow! Signal and raised a few questions about why it wasn’t accepted as proof of alien contact. Since I’m not an astronomer, I decided to...
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another look at alien technology
We generally tend to assume that if an alien species on some faraway world contacted us, it would have to be a good deal farther along in its technological development than we are. After all, they...
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should we be looking for a dyson semaphore?
Another day, another out of the box SETI concept. This time, the idea is to use telescopes watching for a rocky world like ours passing in front of its parent star to detect alien billboards. While we...
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why hundreds of aliens probably aren’t trying to contact us
When a star called KIC 8462852 — I know, I know, doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue nicely, does it? — was showing some bizarre dimming, almost as if a huge object was temporarily blocking its light,...
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why seti is probably going to fail and why that’s really not a bad thing
If you’re an alien astronomer trying to figure out if there’s intelligent life on a little bluish and greenish planet orbiting a a distant star, astrophysicist Ethan Siegel has a warning for you....
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how one planet shows an indirect glimpse of our future and the fermi paradox
Last year, the Kepler telescope discovered a planet which seems to be pretty much the closest thing to Earth we’ve ever detected. Kepler-452b is a world roughly five times as big as ours, with twice...
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why the wow! signal wasn’t just a rogue comet
Whenever scientists talk about the possibility of detecting alien intelligence, just about every discussion will mention the Wow! Signal, a weird transmission from 1977 we’ve been trying to explain...
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world of weird things podcast: in search of ancient little green men
Illustration: Sleestaks from Land of the Lost Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu, and ancient alien cities buried under the Antarctic ice are standard fodder for many works by occultists and science fiction...
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world of weird things podcast: the most abundant lifeforms in the universe
Illustration from Subnautica We think we have a pretty good handle on what life is, but the reality is that thinks we think of as living are just a subset of possible chemistries and mechanisms by...
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