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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 will...

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another look at the fermi paradox

Considering that The Daily Galaxy’s record on topics like aging, evolution and futurism are not exactly stellar, if you pardon the pun, we might expect their feature article on the Fermi Paradox to be...

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an astronomer’s big claims about gliese 581g

Looks like we have to hold off on all those colonization plans for Gliese 581g for now. According to Australian alien hunter Ragbir Bhathal, it may be home to intelligent alien creatures that may be...

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weird things talks to astronomer ragbir bhathal

It looks like my earlier post about astronomer Ragbir Bhathal’s supposed claim of a laser signal from Gliese 581g was based on a story that was more creative editing than fact. After receiving several...

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how not to download a sinister alien a.i.

George Dvorsky, who you may remember from our appearances on Skeptically Speaking when we debated the science and technology behind transhumanist ideas, recently posted his top ten stories of the year....

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why standardizing seti is harder than it sounds

Out first hypothetical conversations with aliens have been portrayed in just about every possible way. From an intense and grandiose introduction to the entire globe on live TV or emanating from alien...

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could we see how aliens mine asteroids?

Whenever skeptics talk about the probability of an alien invasion, we often like to point out that attacking very distant worlds is totally unnecessary thanks to asteroid belts, which contain countless...

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the trouble with an alien-human dictionary

If there’s anything I’m trying to convey when talking about active SETI attempts, it’s that talking to a completely alien creature will be very, very difficult due to the very likely differences in our...

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you’ve reached earth, please leave a message

Unless you’ve completely avoided the web for the last day or so, you know that SETI’s radio telescope array is mothballed for the foreseeable future and the project’s funding is drying up. Maybe we can...

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finding aliens by the black holes they make?

As the world keeps moving forward, our energy requirements are constantly increasing. Our cities and towns are consuming terawatt after terawatt, and as new technology comes online and old technology...

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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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how do we find relativistic alien rockets?

Say that somewhere out there is a species of space-faring aliens which have relativistic rockets or warp drive technology that lets it travel between solar systems. Considering the sheer size of the...

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if you rearrange a galaxy, will anyone notice?

Individual humans aren’t much of an impact on nature by themselves. Considering the sheer size of the Earth and our finite life spans, one would think we have very little effect on our world. But...

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when the answer could actually be aliens

Imagine a relatively ordinary white star much like our own, because despite appearing yellow in our skies, it’s actually bright white. Now, increase its size by half and add a pattern of dimming when...

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find aliens with this one weird trick

Looking for aliens is hard, we all know that. Considering just how much space we need to scan while knowing full well that we’re looking for the equivalent of a needle in all the hay on Earth, a lot...

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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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