All week long we’ve looked at different articles with conflicting viewpoints on Hawking’s statements that we should take care in broadcasting our presence to the Universe, because we might attract a powerful interstellar nomadic species that could very well steal our planet and kill us all. Of course, in the premise of scientists such as [...]
All week long I’ve posted articles and essays written by various folks both for and against Stephen Hawking’s premise that an advanced nomadic interstellar culture might act aggressively toward us. In a post yesterday on Centauri Dreams, Paul Gilster posts a small article about SETI’s Jill Tarter, and a statement from Philip Morrison: I love [...]
It seems that Paul Davies, author of ‘The Eerie Silence‘, doesn’t agree with Dr. Hawking’s assessment that advanced interstellar nomads would attack us for our resources. When British cosmologist Stephen Hawking warned against contact with extraterrestrials in a new Discovery Channel documentary, he was repeating a well-worn argument. “If aliens ever visit us, I think [...]
Isaac Asimov is one of my favorite authors. Many hours have I spent reading about the robot R. Daneel Olivaw and his journey through the millennia from android cop to Galactic Empire Prime Minister. Asimov was also a prolific science fact writer. Over 500 articles are to his credit before he died in 1992. One [...]
When it comes to the UFO phenomenon, most folks believe aliens are already visiting Earth in large numbers, even kidnapping people in order to experiment on them. But to mainstream scientists, there is no empirical evidence of alien contact yet. In fact, some prominent scientists think human civilization should avoid contact with alien civilizations at [...]
The Air Forces’ X37B robot mini-space shuttle type spacecraft was launched last night at 7:52 p.m. atop of an United Launch Alliance (Boeing/Lockheed-Martin) Atlas V 501 medium/heavy lift rocket. The X37B was a NASA project at one time, but when NASA decided in 2004 to go with the Ares 1 and 5 concepts that used [...]
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) opened for business yesterday and caught a short solar show. Enjoy. … … We go from observing “Ra” in all his glory to this NASA photo of the Iceland volcano to see the very “Devil” in the Earth. … … Today’s hat tip does to The Daily Grail.
Enrico Fermi, whose famous lunch-time theory has transcended the decades was a believer. Yes, a believer. According to Mori of Forgetomori, Fermi not only questioned ‘why’ we haven’t seemed to have been visited by aliens, he actually believed they existed: According to “Dr. SETI“, H. Paul Shuch, from the official SETI League, “physicist Enrico Fermi, said [...]
Once again, Rick Phillips ‘barfs’ all over the place. Complete with YouTube video and commentary! ] … Caution, the above video is from the same folks who TODAY declare “President Barack Obama to admit Knowledge of ETs this year” – “All News Web has been informed that on 14 March of this year a meeting [...]
Possible proof of another ‘intelligent’ civilization in the Universe? A refutation of the Fermi Paradox? Maybe. There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before.”We don’t know what [...]
