Christopher Butler

January 22nd 2012

Karl Schroeder

Posted at 9:06pm and tagged with: quote, aliens,.

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Nature. Basically, either advanced alien civilizations don’t exist, or we can’t see them because they are indistinguishable from natural systems. I vote for the latter…

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August 10th 2010

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For the World is Hollow… and I Have Touched the Sky!

Phobos - an artificially created relic? Could 2010 be the year we make contact?

Posted at 12:00pm and tagged with: space, aliens,.

February 26th 2010

Is it time to take a more active approach and systematically advertise our existence to the cosmos? Some searchers for extraterrestrial intelligence say yes. Others suggest it’s a rash, naïve idea.

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Posted at 1:34pm and tagged with: science, aliens,.

January 28th 2010

Aliens might be just like us… greedy, violent and short on resources.

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Posted at 11:06am and tagged with: the-future, aliens,.

November 24th 2009

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This is a piece of the Cosmic Call mesage sent in 1999 and 2003 by NASA to any alien civilization that might be listening.

Posted at 12:16pm and tagged with: aliens,.

November 6th 2009

How habitable is the Earth? We H. Sapiens Sapiens appear to be an infestation on this planet.

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Charles Stross wonders how likely an alien reconnaissance mission would be to find our Earth a potential and hospitable settling place:

We are finely tuned survival machines that have evolved to survive in a niche on one particular planet in one particular epoch. Even our own planet is unimaginably hostile to our kind of life for most of its history.

Posted at 12:06pm and tagged with: aliens, science,.