Tag Archives: SETI

Fresh Water! Mars Rover Curiosity Finds 3.5 Billion-Year Old Lake Sediment in Gale Crater That Could Have Supported Life

There was some big news yesterday that you might have missed. It appeared in the science section of the The New York Times (December 9, 2013): [L]ife [on Mars], at least in the ancient past, is at least plausible. John P. … Continue reading

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God is Dead, the Earth is Not Our Mother, and We are Alone?

Dr. Peter Ward, a paleontologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, is an atheist and prolific author (he’s written about a dozen books over his career). He’s also a skeptic concerning two things that a lot of secular people (including … Continue reading

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Ocean Fail vs. Space Fail: Is America the New China (Circa 1492)?

Speculating about counterfactuals is always dicey, but historians have long noted that, over the past 600 years, the course of human events might well have played out starkly different if China, in the 1400s, had not been so isolationist and uninterested in ocean … Continue reading

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Kepler Telescope Watch: Will the Discovery of an Earth-like Planet Be Announced By NASA Tommorrow?

Something seems to be brewing around a NASA announcement scheduled for tommorrow. Here’s Denise Chow at Space.com: NASA is expected to make an announcement Thursday on the progress of its Kepler spacecraft, which has been staring at one patch of … Continue reading

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Here’s the Groovy UFO Historian Dude I Went to Lunch with on Saturday

At a Burbank UFO conference I attended on Saturday, I had lunch with Richard Dolan (I tell that story here). In the clip below, Dolan is being interviewed at a UFO conference in Nevada: And here’s Dolan’s website and the Amazon link to … Continue reading

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Astronaut Gordon Cooper on UFOs

Astronaut Gordon Cooper, who died in 2004, spent much of his life convinced that extraterrestrial intelligences are visiting Earth and that the American government is covering up this fact. Here’s what Wikipedia says about Cooper’s UFO beliefs and experiences: Cooper claimed to have … Continue reading

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Barack Obama on UFOs and Aliens

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Warranted Extraterrestrial Belief?: A Washington Post Article Gives an Overview of the Evidence For Extraterrestrial Life—and Against It

Rather than short, spaceship travelling creatures with big eyes and big heads, what are the prospects of humanity actually having an encounter with REAL extraterrestrials over the next generation? The Washington Post today has an article on this scientific question. First, the negative prospects. … Continue reading

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