After I’ve Considered That…

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

I’ve seen this on facebook recently, and another friend just emailed it to me, so let me post it here to launch a couple of points for discussion:   So how about if I knew all that already? And could even make some minor corrections? Do I get to be certain? A quick google fails […]

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Ten Reasons Aliens Would Find Humans Ridiculous

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Who the crap knows what aliens are going to be like?   I don’t, but let me imagine that aliens who have the longevity and technology to learn about us will be rational and not arbitrary in the same ways that we are.   Here are things I suspect they won’t understand, and might even believe to […]

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The Sound and the Fury about Stephen Hawking’s Alien Warning

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Last night I caught the much discussed Discovery Channel episode of Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking dealing with aliens. The initial clip on the website is “Fear the Aliens” which is the controversial bit.   Hawking, unlike Carl Sagan, apparently thinks that we would have much to fear from technologically advanced aliens and that we […]

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Ten Actors Who Look Like Aliens

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Maybe this is in bad taste.   I don’t know.   I don’t care too much.   There are some weird looking actors out there who have gotten a lot of work over the years.   They’re not ugly.   They’re “Hollywood Ugly” which means you don’t scream when you see them and there’s something about the way they look […]

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Seth Shostak’s Confessions of an Alien Hunter

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

No, Seth Shostak is not a Predator, although that would be a cool book… Seth is a radio astronomer who works for the SETI Institute hunting for alien signals from space, and he has a book out called Confessions of an Alien Hunter which is about SETI and his personal experiences with the project. You […]

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Communicating with Aliens

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

It’s the time of the year when I start thinking about the schedule of activities for the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers.   Most of the things we’ve done have been very popular and successful, but there was one controversial thing last year that I probably won’t repeat, at least not in the same form. […]

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Living on Mars among alien creatures…

Monday, January 5th, 2009

I’m not talking about the interesting TV show, Life on Mars, but an Einstein quote from a letter he wrote in 1933 to a professional musician living in Germany: I am the one to whom you wrote in care of the Belgian Academy…Read no newspapers, try to find a few friends who think as you […]

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